Is 2gb of RAM enough for update to OS X Lion

I have a Mid 2009 Macbook Pro with 2GB of RAM. I'm wondering if 2GB is enough to run Lion for my uses. I use microsoft office, iwork, and ilife regulary for school work and other purposes but nothing to extensive. Is 2GB enough?
Thanks

It runs on my 2010 macbook air w/ 2 g of memory without any obvious slow down compared to Snow Leopard. That isn't the fastest machine in the world and I use it for limited purposes due to its extreme portability. I haven't noticed any performance degradation but I haven't done any benchmark tests - so this is just a subjective impression. On my macbook pro with 10 gig of memory there are no slowdown issues and a subjective impression without benchmarks is that it is a tad speedier.

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Hello,
I have an urgent question I hope you can help me with:
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Hey guys, i just had a few questions, hope you can sanswer them? (i think this is my 7th question in 4 days )
1. I heard that the 256gb or higher model has a samsung PCIe ssd drive, while the 128gb model has a sandisk PCIe ssd drive . Am i correct?
2. If so, is the samsung ssd drive faster than the sandisk ssd drive? How fast? (is it noticably fast?)
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Paul SanGregory wrote:
It used to be that the amount of RAM pre-installed was never enough. Is this still a truism?
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Not sure Why you are posting this to me...
Perhaps you meant it for the OP...
Apologies, I was just referring to what you said about more ram being better, I didn't mean to direct it at you

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