New, getting first mac tomorow, have a question!

yes... no.. or yes

is a bit faster worth $300 to you, or not? Are you using it professionally, where time = money, yes, or are you just arseing about, in which case it means nothing, then no? If money = nothing then yes.

Flip a coin

perhaps that's too harsh.. what I mean is really, only you can know the answer. No amount of statistics can help you. Is 2% faster worth $300? is 2 seconds faster on a particular filter operation meaningful to you, $300 meaningful? what about 10 seconds?

 

no and ill just leave it at "unless you need it"

i think there are speed test comparisons between the two at barefeats not sure though

 

Save your $300 and buy a decent size second monitor. Or a nice plugin.

You might find this place helpful as you're getting started:
http://logicprohelp.com/forums.php

Enjoy your Mac!

 

For use with Logic at home. No. I assume you will not be recording 24 or 48 tracks. Not with the "Duet" so performance will not be an issue.

Do you need the "studio" version of Logic? I assume you read the specs and found something in there you needed. Most home user would be happy with "express"

Should you spend the extra $300. I'd say only spend it if you are in such a good position that spending it will not cause you to skimp on other parts of the recording system. You do have several large external disks for backups and also a good fast disk for the audio files you will be creating.

One more thing.. Have you used Logic yet? It really likes touse up screen space. you will be wanting a large monitor. Spend the $300 on the extra 0.13 GHz but only it you can still cover the other things you will need.

Why a notebook for a home studio? Do you need to be portable? If not the iMac or Mac Pro gives more bang for less bucks

 

Don't bother, the performance increase is minimal and you can use 100 of those $300 to buy some extra ram, which is more important.