Macbook extra power for G5?

Am thinking of making the purchase for a Macbook as they are now as fast as the older MBP's and can go up to 4GB.
I already have a G5 dual core 2.3Ghz and wondered if I could
use the Macbook (when im not really using it) as extra processing for my G5?
On my G5 I have PT, Logic 8 and Ableton which I use all the time, and have heard of "node" but can this work for any general applications on the Mac?
I would like to add the "grunt" or a 2.4Ghz Core2duo plus 4gb into my Apple G5?
Would this work? (My G5 is on Tiger 10.4.9 and i suppose a new macbook will be on leopard - will this matter?)

Some clustering can be done, but it's application dependent; the app has to be written to either have it's own clustering code or use the systems Apple provides, Qmaster or Xgrid. I don't know about Ableton - you'd have to ask the developer - but Logic will distribute encoding/compression using Compressor and Qmaster. How much benefit you'd get out of using your MacBook as well I don't know.

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