I have been asked by a friend of mine to find out if a new MacBook working on 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB memory, 80GB hard drive and
MAC OS X Leopard, will be able to run Scrivener, Nisus and iWork 08 simultaneously. As a person that deals with PCs I have very limited knowledge of Macs.
Sooner or later, your friend will probably want to put more memory in the MacBook, particularly if he works with very long documents – but I don’t think it’s urgent.
Nicka is exactly right. Aside from the RAM, that’s exactly the MacBook I have, and it could easily handle those apps at the same time. Hell, my old G5 iMac could handle them.