[PHP] [Slightly OT] Apple MacBook MAMP and Logic

[Tom Chubb]

I am looking to buy a Mac in a couple of weeks primarily for writing music
using Apple Logic Studio 8 which will run absolutely fine on a MacBook.
However, I am considering installing something like MAMP and using that as
my development server too at which point I'm wondering whether I should
invest in a MacBook Pro or whether I can get away with the lower spec
MacBook.
So I guess what I'm asking is, does having Apache, MySQL & PHP installed on
a Mac use much system resources?