Benchmark song - please post your observations

I am thinking of going all software. Selling most of my hardware synths. I don't know which computer to go for but I would like to be able to make all types of music and video work. Can you go thru the post below (I copied from the archived post) and post your observations? Macbook pros (C2D) are nice but can they handle orchestral work? Macpros are fast but difficult to carry around, of course. How well do the EWQLSO vsts and such play on the newest macs? How much is the delay loading samples? Hardware synths usually have no delay loading patches.
Thanks to all of you who gave results on the first benchmark song. This one is very similar, instead of using Space Designer it uses Sculpture. Each track has 15 notes on each, so for polyphony multiply tracks by 15.
http://noisefloor.com/logic/SculptureBenchmark.lso.zip
Mute tracks until you are able to play the session back consistently.
Please list:
Your machine and speed
Ram
OS version
Logic version
sound card
buffer setting
My results: Quad 2.5, 4.5 gigs ram, 10.4.5, Logic 7.1.1, MOTU 828mk2, buffer 512
39 tracks, polyphony 585, CPU use in Activity monitor maxed about 340%.

If your looking to do orchestral mockups using samples, running a sculpture/space designer based benchmark test will not give you the answers you seek. Sculpture & space designer are both CPU based effects/instruments, where orchestral mockups are RAM based (for the most part). Of course CPU is needed to run your players (Kontakt, play, VSL VI, etc) as well as reverbs (convolution reverbs use a lot of CPU) but your actual orchestra will be streaming from RAM & Hard Disk.
Thus macpro desktops are currently the best way to go, as you have more RAM access & multiple internal HD's. Thats not to say you cant get comparable results using a macbook pro, but seeing as how all my studio equipment is in my studio, desktop works great for me.
I wonder if its possible to do a similar benchmark test using Logic's EXS & factory samples instead of sculpture? Of course the factory patches are much smaller than the massive instruments found in VSL/EastWest, but I'm sure someone could put one together. I'd be interested to see the results.

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