Developing iPhone apps using SDK - what hardware to use?

I am planning on developing iPhone apps but am new to the Mac. I have 20 years of development experience but all on PC and web/java side.
I was planning on buying a MacBook 13" with 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2 Gig of RAM. In your experience is this enough power to develop apps using the SDK.
What hardware configs do you any of you developers use to run the iPhone SDK?
Thanks in advance

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