Will this setup work effectively?

Lcarvone

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In the near future I intend on buying a Canopus ADVC-100 (realtime external analog to digital device) for converting old VHS tapes and home movies to play on my DVD player. What I plan to do is hook it up to my old laptop. The laptop came with a docking bay which adds PCI slots in which I can install a USB 2.0 card and firewire card. The system is or will be set up as follows:

(Toshiba Tecra 750DVD)
Pentium 233 MMX
128 megs EDO DRAM
External (big) HD connected via USB 2.0 card
ADVC-100 connected via firewire card

My concern is that there will be some bottlenecks and/or problems with either with CPU speed, video chipset, memory, PCI bandwidth, etc. making the additions pointless (and expensive). Any thoughts on this potential setup?