A new Intel Mac is starting to look better and better for musicians now that Apple have dropped the price of their TOTL audio app, Logic Pro 8, by half...

You can now get a complete studio app, all the plug-ins you need (very high quality, from all accounts), all the Virtual Instruments you need (ditto), an app to play those VSTi's live, standalone, a pro convolution reverb, and numerous enhancements all at about $500. A pro convolution reverb alone is worth nearly that...

Add to that distributed audio processing (add more computers for more power) and latency down to about 1.5ms round-trip with certain hardware, and (drum roll, please...) NO DONGLE... Serial# only for two installations. This thing is close to a Cubase/Sonor killer...

Oh yes, and of course, you can boot into Windows (or run it in VMWare or Parallels) if you REALLY miss those pesky trojans and spyware...