System performance on Powerbook

[Borge King]

My system is a 1,25 Ghz, 1 Gb RAM Powerbook, Motu 828 MkII and Logic Gold (soon to become Pro). I've been using my Mg Modular on a 1 Ghz, 512 Mb RAM, AMD Athlon PC earlier.
When I play the MM on my new Powerbook, I'm quite surprised by the bad system performance. Four voices at the same time seems to be more than the Powerbook can handle, and the System performance meter goes skyhigh. On my PC, I'm quite sure I used to run two versions of MM with no problem, one playing a chord (3-4) voices, and one playing a bass- or leadline.
So I'm interested in hearing other Powerbook-users experiences with MM in Logic. How many voices can it handle. By the way, the Ana String preset seems to be one of the heaviest.
And also, I use the Oddity, which seems to use very little CPU. Battery also works fine, and audio recording is brilliant with buffer 256.

[nuada]

If you don't absolutely need the Logic sequencer, there are several "chainer" type of programs out there. I don't know if or how many there are for the Mac. There are severl for windows. This way you can run several instances without all the overhead that your arrangement sequencer uses up. Check out www.KVR-VST.com

[pwedza]

Borge King,
I half half the system you have -- a powerbook G4 667 mhz 768 ram-- and, while I love the sounds I get a hint of, MMV runs poorly on my system. I run a bunch of Native Instrument programs and they don't have any problem. Hopefully they can optimize it for us without making mac users buy a G5.