every professional recording studio I've stepped in has had a mac in it period. Usually two or three. Before Garage Band I used to use Soundtrack Pro as part of the Protools bundle with DVD studio and Final Cut Pro. In fact I still use ST Pro even though it is no longer bundled with Final Cut Studio. Most of the profesisionals are using Apple Logic coupled with Finale for composing. Logic seems to be the best tool without spending tens of thousands of dollars on the truely professional stuff.
That being said, Garage Band probably does enough for my limited needs of mixing and editing sound loops, but I still use ST Pro as I still use FC Studio 4 with FCP upgraded to the HD version.
Although, in the next version of Final Cut Pro is supposed to be able to handle 5.1 surround sound from inside the program, so no having to mix the soundtrack in another application and having to sync.
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