[Justin Miller]

I hate to argue with a Motion expert like Mark Spencer, but I can confirm that Motion 4 will indeed run okay on a 13″ MacBook Pro. Mine has 8GB of RAM and handles Motion just fine (I also run a 20″ cinema display so I can actually see what I’m doing). In fact I used to run Motion on my black 13″ MacBook with 4GB of RAM and the cruddy Intel 3100 graphics processor; while the performance was much slower, it did in fact work.

Like the others here, I would recommend a larger MacBook Pro with discrete graphics if you are going to spend a lot of your time in Motion 4. However, if you’re just creating the occasional marketing video like I do for my company (https://www.peoplekey.com), a 13″ MacBook Pro may be all you need. Just my two cents.