Cintiq performance on Macbook Pro vs. new Mac Pro

Has anyone used a Wacom Cintiq (I'm using the 20" model) on both a recent Macbook Pro (I've got a 2.4 mhz Santa Rosa 4gb ram) and one of the new 8 core Mac Pros?
I'm interested in the cursor lag in Photoshop CS3 and Painter X.
I realize there are a lot of variables and don't expect any kind of scientific comparison. Just wondering if anyone upgraded and was "Wowed!" by the difference or if there was just a slight improvement.

I have a Cintiq 21UX (since March 2006) on a Quad G5 2.5 with 16 gig and 160 gig scratch and use it from time to time on a 2.33 MacBook Pro with 4 gig.
I have no major problems with Painter X, you can pull it up with big enough files of course but for my use it works great with quad.
On a 10"x10" canvas at 300ppi I can't find any brush to cause it to lag.(give me a file size and ppi and I'll do what ever brush size or any other test you can think of)
Oh yeah, no lag problems at all with CS3.

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