Will macbook pro (13-inch: 2.7 GHz, 8GB Ram), run logic pro9/pro tools8?

i have been looking at macbook pro's for a while and i thought that this would run the software fine, but i heard that it may not, i am not at all experienced with the was mac's in general distribute the cpu usage in comparison to windows and how memory/power hungry they are, obv they are not as bad as windows, they are alot more efficient, but thats as far as i know. ijust wnodered whether i needed to buy the macbook pro 15 inch with the quad core proicessor, will this be significantly faster and run the software logic pro9/pro tools8 better...please help me???
Thanks alot
Ben

It would run it, but you'd do a lot better with the 15" i7 model
If you buy the RAM upgrade from OWC it would save you some cash to put towards the better spec machine ...

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