What you should try,
The way I did my whole thing, hassle free, was I put all my stuff on my iPod, so I took most of my videos off my iPod becuase I don't watch half of them and now I have more storage, along with that I use my iPod has an extended memory for my Macbook.
Maybe, you can hook up ur macbook and laptop together with an ethernet cable and set the laptop in file share mode.... I don't know exactly how to do that, I will give it a try if you don't figure it out by tomorrow (Wed.)