Logic 9 - Snow Leapord to Lion Compatability

I'm currently running Logic (32-bit) on an older Macbook Pro (Intel...about 3-years old) using Snow Leopard and am looking to upgrade to a new Macbook....which would come with Lion of course. I've hesitated upgrading my current mac to Lion because my system works fine and I've heard there are issues with Lion, but I need more horsepower.
Don't want to reload Logic, all my 3rd party plugins and recreate the wheel so my original thought was to clone my current drive over to the new mac, but thru other discussions on another board it's my understanding I can't do this because SL is not compatible with Lion in that fashion....and if I were to do this, Lion apparently would not be able to boot up. Furthermore, I'm told you can't even load SL onto a newer macbook pro and change the operating system. (the thought was to do this, clone my exist drive to the new macbook so everything works identically and then "upgrade" to Lion if need be....)
Three Questions:
1)      All I want to do is upgrade my machine and have everything the way it was w/o having to reload everything, creating aliases and recreating my current setup. Is this possible between my existing SL Macbook Pro and a new Lion equipped version. Don't want to put the $$$ down if it's going to be a major pain.
2)     I'm considering setting up Network Node between the two machines to get more horsepower between the two. This is the reason for upgrading to a newer MBP anyways....the older MBP doesn't have the memory to do much apparently....it bogs down with most software instruments. Does (would) the logic node work between these two machines running different OS's and/or is it even worth it? I've read pros/cons regarding network node, but have never used it myself.
3)      I'm currrently running in 32 bit and know 64 is out there. Is there any advantage to switch over if I bite the bullet?
Thanks in advance....

bnote wrote:
1)      All I want to do is upgrade my machine and have everything the way it was w/o having to reload everything, creating aliases and recreating my current setup. Is this possible between my existing SL Macbook Pro and a new Lion equipped version. Don't want to put the $$$ down if it's going to be a major pain.
Hi There are several solutions for this: (but first make sure that all drivers, plugs and applications are Lion compatible. Download all updaters ready for the switch, and have them handy for the new setup.
A Start the new MBP in Target Disk Mode, connect over Firewire to the old one. Wipe the new Drive, clone the old one (Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper). Do not restart the new Mac. Download the Lion Installer on the old Mac, run it but CAREFULLY select the new drive for the installation.
B Clone your old Mac to an external drive, startup from that drive, download Lion and install it on the External drive. Start the new Mac from the external, wipe the Internal drive and then clone the external to the internal.
C Download the Lion installer on your old MBP. Do NOT run the installer. Control click on the Installer (Show Contents) and find "InstallESD.dmg" (the installer itself) inside SharedSupport. Use Disk Utility to burn a DVD of the LIon Installer which you can then use to start and install on your new MBP after cloning. Start the new MBP in Target Disk mode (hold down T when you start it up), connect the 2 Mac's together with Firewire, wipe the drive on the new one and then clone (Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper) the old one over to the new one.
Restart the new one using the Lion Installer dvd that you made earlier (Hold down C on startup), and install Lion.
The main advantage of this method is that you end up with a boot disk for Lion that can be used anytime you need to start up the mac from a second source.
bnote wrote:
2)     I'm considering setting up Network Node between the two machines to get more horsepower between the two. This is the reason for upgrading to a newer MBP anyways....the older MBP doesn't have the memory to do much apparently....it bogs down with most software instruments. Does (would) the logic node work between these two machines running different OS's and/or is it even worth it? I've read pros/cons regarding network node, but have never used it myself.
Logic node does work (with some restrictions covered in the manual), but you may do better to investigate the game-changing Vienna Ensemble Pro from VSL.
bnote wrote:
3)      I'm currrently running in 32 bit and know 64 is out there. Is there any advantage to switch over if I bite the bullet?
Only if you have significantly more than 4G of RAM
HTH
CCT

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