Mac Help!

if you have to take a loan don't buy it

i agree. 

i have a macbook pro and i run final cut studio on it,  if you can get the 17 inch, but the 15 inch is still ok,  get the faster hard drive if you can, especially if thats what your putting fcs2 on.  and you WILL need an external hard drive for all the footage and stuff,  i got a g-tech g drive and its awesome.

the 15inch is a sick laptop  but investment i ever made

I'd wait on the Mac Pro.  Its due for an up date.   unsubstantiated  nerd speculation on macrumors.com is  that there will be a new processor for it soon.  BTW I just got a MBP its great for print/web but i havent done video.

" Intel first announced the 45-nm Penryn processors on November 12th, 2007, with the first batch of Penryn processors focusing on the higher end server-class Xeon processors. Apple has been rumored to be buying up the high end 3.2GHz Penryn Xeon processors which feature a faster 1600MHz bus and 12MB of L2 cache for an upcoming Mac Pro revision."

yeah dog if you can get a shitty job for a couple months, save a couple grand, and just quit.  but i have the mcabook pro and i use it daily for my design classes.  i just loaded final cut express on it and it works fine.  my friends have final cut pro and it can handle it. it is called the macbook PRO because it is dsigned to handle all of their pro applications.