Mac Book pro or Quad core machine

I am running logic 6 on a 1.6G5. I want to upgrade to Logic 8 with a new Mac. I was wondering how stable / powerful are the macBook pros? Would a mac book pro be enough to use in my studio. My trusty old g5 is pretty slow now and only runs around 10 instruments 3 tracks of audio before it dies. I want my new set up to run AS MANY 3rd Party plugs / Logic instruments / Audi as poss!!
Would you guys get a Mac Book pro or a quad or Oct machine with an extra (4gigs or RAM)?
Help I need advice before I choose.
BTW I recently bought a brand new 2.4 duo Macbook. And I cant even run 1 instance of Ableton Lives simpler instrument!! This has sparked my questioning weather a Mac Bok pro should be any different wityh Logic 8.
please donate help and advice!!
John

WOW!! Cheers for posts. This confirmed much of what I thought anyway but its always good to hear the advice of others. Regarding Ableton - I ran it last night on my crappy 3Ghz Dell computer (which i bought for £150) - and Ableton ran like dream, no stutters, nothing!! I tried it on the macbook 2.4 Duo and ditto; it stutters after adding a hi hat pattern to a kick pattern!!
I read in the forums that turning off bluetooth and upgrading software and downgrading the OS may help but lets be honest here: THIS IS BULL!! These machines and software should work out the box, every time, for everybody.
My old system was SO stable it was a dream, unfortunatley the Mac isnt powerful enough now to give me and my projects what i want. I am therfore in the unenviable position of jumping to a new version of Logic a new OS and machine plus 3r party plug-ins. Well ****** off.
I think my best option is to get a new machine, install 10.4 and and logic 7. Is this possible? Or go all out get Logic 8, 10.5, and a quad. Advice!!!
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decided to take the plunge and update to the new Mac
Pro w/intell chip and the Mac Book Pro. The Big
machine is now on it's way back to China due to
numerous issues that all the techs in the kingdom
could not solve, one issue being the non reponsive
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for IT"S fire wire port. No, It's not dirty. My
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