MBP good for hardcore multitasking??

Ok so here is the scoop. I am a web developer who does some hardcore multitasking. Typically I have Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Safari, TextMate, Itunes, Mail, iChat, VNC and Flash open all at once. Once I get a new mac, I'll be running Parallels with Win Xp also.
Sometimes I'll have Soundtrack Pro open as well. I also do some work in Illustrator, Final Cut Pro and 3D. Needless to say I am a power user (which my mini was not designed for). I love my mini (G4 1.25 with 1GB ram) but so much multitasking bogs it down (side note: it's not the hard drive slowing things down since I run most apps/data off a FW 7200 drive)
I really like the idea of portability with the MBP, but fast/smooth work flow is most important.
So the questions are, would a Mac Book Pro get bogged down as well running so much or would I be better off geting one of the new desktop Mac Pros when they come out? Or would a 20" iMac with 2GB ram suffice (and allow me to save some $$$)
-nb

Your G4 Mini is bogging down because it doesn't have enough physical RAM for your suite of programs and tasks. It's making heavy use of Virtual Memory, which involves swapping data to and from your drive, and that's very much slower than swapping data in RAM.
A MacBook Pro with 2 GB RAM would do a better job, both because of the much faster processor and because of the additional RAM.
But some of the programs you use require Rosetta, and that takes extra RAM. So if you run those programs concurrently on the MBP, with lots of threads running, you will hit slowdowns again. Things will get better when programs such as Photoshop become UB, but even so 2 GB RAM will likely not always be enough. You will encounter the same limitation on the current Intel iMacs.
One of the big advantages of the Pro Macs is that they can accept more RAM. I've got 5 GB in my PowerMac G5 dual core 2.3 GHz machine and that's been enough for my tasks. I can run the same tasks with UB apps on my MBP and love the portability, but the MBP can sometimes get low on free RAM.
I would expect the new Intel Pro Macs to hold lots of RAM and to be very speedy. They will become the new powerhouse Macs.
The current MacBook Pro and iMac computers are limited to 2 GB RAM. It's possible that upcoming new chips for these Macs will allow more RAM. A 4 GB RAM MBP could handle lots of multitasking that requires big memory space. The downside would be cost; RAM for the MBP is more expensive than RAM for the Mac Pro. Miniaturization costs big time for RAM.
All that said, you would see a big performance jump in moving from a G4 Mini to the current MBP with 2 GB RAM.

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