For my Editing Pleasure

I placed an order for 4gb of RAM and an external 1tb hard drive with firewire 800 data transfer.  I'm pretty excited about this.  In my personal theory based on absolutely nothing, this should cut rendering time in half and free up tons of space on my internal hard drive.  I decided to order the memory after watching a youtube video showing just how easy it is to install it to your iMac.  I thought it was an overbearingly tedious task but it seems the hardest thing I'll have to do is loosen a screw.  I'm excited to have my Mac running faster and pray it seriously cuts down on compression time.