Aperture on Macbook with 1G ram...

Anyone running Aperture on a Macbook successfully with 1 Gig of Ram?
Thanks!

I don't know if there's anything you can do to make version 1 work on the Macbook. Surely there is some info out there, maybe at OSX Hints.
If there's nothing you can do, you can buy Aperture 1.5. As it says on the Aperture "What's New" page - it "extends support to all Intel-based Macs — from the Mac mini and MacBook to the Mac Pro." So there should be no question as to whether it runs on a Macbook or has the proper screen resolution. It certainly can and does run nicely.
Yes, I run Aperture 1.5 on my Macbook with 1.25GB of RAM and am quite pleased with its performance. I have no complaints.

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