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?