Installing FCP on a seccond computer!

HI. I am trying to put my copy of FCP 6 on a mac book pro. Im not sure it will work. I Originally bought final cut studio when FCP 4.5 was the latest version., then last year I bought the upgrade to 5.1 crossgrade. I had to send them my original FCP install disk. Then earlier this year I bought The final cut studio 2 upgrade. I am wanting to put a copy of FCP on a macbook pro. Will It work with these install disks even though they are upgrades? I want to make sure this will work before I buy a macbook pro.

steez, zak's response is correct. My upgrade path was the same as yours 4.5->5.1 and now FCS2. FCP6 works great on a MBP.
Early in the sequence for installing FCS2 on my MBP a dialog box came up asking for the FCS serial number, then for the FCS2 serial number. (Or, maybe it was the other way around, whatever......). You won't have to insert any disks from previous versions of FCP.
If the need for portability exceeds your need for all the expansion capability of a tower Mac, a MBP is the way to go.

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