Hi Dermot, On 1-Apr-06, at 7:34 AM, forums@logic-users.org wrote: > I'm currently interested in buying a new Mac to run Logic Pro, and am > interested in buying a MacBook Pro, mainly for the obvious ability to > work > on the move. However, I don't want to buy a laptop if it means > sacrificing > the ability to create more complex projects. The MacBook Pro is the fastest laptop that Apple has. If you search this list, there were some posts recently indicating that the MBP surpasses a G5 in some ways and lags slightly behind in others. I don't think that you'd be sacrificing performance really based on those earlier posts but.... read on. > I'm just wondering, if anybody owns a MacBook Pro and runs Logic Pro > on it, > is the MBP sufficiently powerful to pretty much handle any project you > have, > or would I be better off having a desktop as my primary machine> The biggest question to ask *today* is (and it is a question to yourself), do you use any 3rd party plugins or just Logic's own plugins. There are currently no 3rd party plugins which are compiled to run on Intel-based Apple machines. That means that you'll be stuck using Logic's own plugins for the short-term. Some developers have provided a timeline for expected releases of Universal Binary versions of their plugins. If it is anything like when developers were updating to OSX versions from OS9, you've got quite a wait. I don't expect to be able to run Logic on a MBP (or any intel based machine) until the end of the year at least. Anyway, to re-iterate, if you use only Logic's plugins (or if you won't miss your 3rd party ones), a MBP is a great machine. Were that my situation, I'd be all over a MBP today. However, I rely too much on 3rd party plugs today. I do use quite a few of Logic's own plugs (and there are some great ones there IMHO) but there are no Logic replacements for UAD, URS, Waves SSL, as well as some virtual instruments (like Spectrasonics, Arturia, Native Instruments, etc.). HTH, Fernstudio