How's Final Cut Studio on a stock MacBook Pro?

say the 15"er.
anyone doing it? ok, or just FCP?

unless you're rich and can afford the 17 the 15 is great. I love mine, like a son. Some one should kick Unsanity and get them to make all their appz universal, i had to uninstall shapeshifter to use CS2 etc. But yea, it is so flipin powerful, went to throw the feature i am cutting into idvd for a quick screener and BOOM it riped through it on best quality (i usually leave it on over night, it took maybe and hour or so.)

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