Using The Mac Book (Pro) With Music

I am thinking of purchasing a Mac book or a Mac Book pro very soon - either one will have an Intel Core 2 duo. However, I am very curious to find out if anyone has tried to use Logic and maybe other music software with one of these units (with core 2 duo) - and if so, can they tell us how far you can push it - in terms of CPU - plug-in's and audio Instruments etc. - and how it compares to powerful desktop units?

I have both a G5 tower and a Macbook pro. I use the tower primarily for recording and the pro for live gig situations, I'm considering moving all my recording over to the Pro and use the node function to utlize the desktop.
The pro is defintiely faster, I have yet to have any problems outside the fact that most of my plugins I use still won't run on the Intel pro. In terms of CPU I've seen demos running 99 audio tracks without much of a problem. The other consideration is disk size on the pro compared to a tower.
The main thing is compatability of plugins with the new Intel macs.
Hope this helps
JN
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