On Apr 1, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Fernstudio <fernstudio@telus.net> wrote: > 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.). I agree with all this, but I wanted to throw in another possibility: If the original poster wants a laptop for mobile use, and still needs to run non-universal binary 3rd party plug-ins, he could also buy the MacBook Pro, use Logic 7.2 on it without third party plug-ins, and when the need for 3rd party plug-ins arises, use the MacBook Pro as a Node machine connected to the current Mac. For example, if the poster imagined wanting a MacBook Pro to be able to take it with them and use Logic 7.2 to record band rehersals, this would work like a charm. He could get a Firewire interface with UB drivers (such as the Mobile I/Os--group buy at 118 points! Or the Fireface, MOTU stuff I believe, etc) and use the MacBook Pro and Logic 7.2 marvelously. In fact, as my tests have shown, a MacBook Pro with the internal 7200RPM drive actually does better in disk I/O than the G5, so performance would be exceptional. Once the poster gets the tracks home, if he wants to mix some of it down using plug-ins such as the ones you mention, he can load the Logic song onto his old G4 or G5, use those plug-ins on the host machine, and connect his MacBook Pro as a Node to handle all the Logic plug-ins. And of course as the year rolls on, and more third party plug-ins are updated, the MacBook Pro can be used for everything. Orren