...I've read reviews in a magazine (Computer Video - in the UK) that said in tests external drives would not work with G3's when trying to capture to them. They did however seem to work with G4's. Anyone know anything about this? Thanks.

I have great success capturing tremendous loads of video with my G3 400 Powerbook into a firewire drive, using Final Cut Pro, an ADS Pyro firewire case, with a maxtor 60GB drive--basically a typical firewire drive, which, btw, only cost me $380 for everything.

The transfer rate is about 14mb/sec. which is comparable to the standard g4 internal. All you need for DV editing is about 4mb/sec. transfer rate.

And I guess the firewire drive should even work with OSX beta, but I haven't fired up the drive--yet

This OmniWeb OSX browser is interesting, though...

I've captured DV to an external VST Firewire drive using an iMac DV Special Edition and a Sony analog-to-digital video convertor. I had no problems.