Dongle question

[Gian]

Will work just fine,...

The only problem i can see is if you wanna play too many layers, than your videos will slow down. I have a MacBook (non pro), and I had a situation with one G5 with problems, and I used my MacBook and save me the day.
Dual Head or Triple Head to go will work on macbook without a problem, just do not know how the Graphic Board wiull handle, since is a 256Mb I belive will go OK, may be some one has the experience on that.
If you have a Macbook Pro with a Firewire 800, you definitly wanna use a external Hard Drive for CONTENT, like the LaCie (already 2 RAID internaly) Big Disks or so,...

[ryanww]

Yea, I assumed that since it is somewhat built in and limited. Thats why I had asked if the dongle would be able to go to another machine should I need more power or when I upgrade to a mac pro.

Unfortunately I only have firewire 400, which kind of sucks. But again, eventually I plan on upgrading. I already have 2 10,000 rpm drives (can't remember who makes them. They are ultra scsi though and 30 gigs a piece. But raided together, they will be fine and I would be willing to get better drives anyway down the road.

In the time being, I will probably only be doing 2 maybe 3 actual video playback layers, and a couple more for image shaping and such if that, so I think I will be fine with my Macbook pro.

Does anyone know how much it is going to be about? At least like a $1,000 or like $5,000?