Final Cut Pro on a Mac Book Pro

My daughter is going to buy a Mac Book Pro, 15", 2.4GHz, 2GB and 160GB hard drive. She intends to have the commercial Final Cut Pro downloaded onto it. I don't know anything about it but she says it is the very expensive software that is used commercially-whatever that may be. Is the Mac Book Pro just described sufficient to run it or would she need a larger HD and more ram beyond the 2GB? Should she get the glossy or regular screen?

Before I got my MBP, I had edited and postproduced multiclip sequences for years on my Powerbook 15" with just 1.5Gb RAM, running both After Effects and Photoshop alongside FCP without a problem. Apart from the graphics card, the the MB is a faster and better machine than my old pal, and I can't see a good enough reason to completely overlook it.
The differences in "FCP-stats" are marginal. What the MBP has over the MB in FCP-land is
* FW800 bus, providing better speed to the external disks (not needed for consumer material)
* Native DVI-output (in contrast to the MB's proprietary miniDVI connector)
* FCP might also find some help in the better graphics card of the MBP.
... but not enough to entirely outrule the MB. If you're on a budget, I'd concider it.
But the MBP / MP is definitely the weapon of choice!

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rexx-user wrote:
Hello,
I had been an iMac and a MacBook Pro (both OS X 10.10.2).
The iPhone (iOS 8.1.3) were both under
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than
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visible.
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for example
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