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again,</li>
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<li id="ydp1734d62bLI_B5248967C0E041708CF51452342F5B2B"
style="list-style-position: outside; margin-right: 0px;">If
I was shopping for a laptop, this would be my personal
feelings about this (excluding the fact that I would never
again, buy a Laptop for GIS!). If your not shopping for a
new laptop, get more memory and a SSD drive if you think
your laptop is slow.<br>
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style="list-style-position: outside; margin-right: 0px;">1)
Speed of CPU and how many cores.</li>
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style="list-style-position: outside; margin-right: 0px;">CPU
speed is not really a problem anymore. Having more cores is
better. An i7 normally has more core than the I5... AMD
will also put more cores but they are individually slower
than Intel's. I would aim for at least 4 real physical
cores (so 8 in total). Currently, screen rendering is done
in threads but not much more. A new OpenCL option is there
(but I can't get it to work on Windows). This will be
worked out soon I imagine and I think more and more
algorithms will start using it. OpenCL can run on CPUs but
will shine on video cards (GPU)<br>
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<div><font face="Avenir Next W01, Avenir Next W00, Avenir Next,
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color="#4c4c4c">2) How much disk space is needed for
installation.</font></div>
<div><font face="Avenir Next W01, Avenir Next W00, Avenir Next,
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color="#4c4c4c">-About 5GB<br>
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color="#4c4c4c">3) Size of Hard Disk and swap space</font><span
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<div><span style="color: rgb(76, 76, 76); font-family: Avenir
Next W01, Avenir Next W00, Avenir Next, Avenir, Helvetica
Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">-The biggest SSD you
can buy. I would take a laptop that has a m.2 slot based on
PCIe (and not based on a m.2 SATA slot). If not, a regular
SATA SSD drive would be next and hybrid drives the last
option. Patrick has a good point on SSDs. Having the
possibility to use an Intel Optane m.2 drive could be nice
if you have a free m.2 PCIe slot and a SATA based SSD.<br>
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Minimum RAM memory.</li>
<li id="ydp1734d62bLI_7B5A25B6C39C45DCB7446787EB689401"
style="list-style-position: outside; margin-right: 0px;">-I
would get 16GB now with condition I can upgrade to 32 or
64GB for future proofing. <br>
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<li id="ydp1734d62bLI_20D16888C2324589AB9E8B1BC63B2821"
style="list-style-position: outside; margin-right: 0px;">5)
Display and screen resolution and lastly.</li>
<li id="ydp1734d62bLI_20D16888C2324589AB9E8B1BC63B2821"
style="list-style-position: outside; margin-right: 0px;">All
displays will probably work. My 10 year old laptop has 1366
x 768 and this works. That would probably only come with a
lower end laptop today. You can most likely get a 1920x1080
or better. Make sure you have a digital or usb-c (with
video) plug to be able to use a second or third bigger
screen.<br>
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color="#4c4c4c">6) Graphics memory.</font></div>
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color="#4c4c4c">I have only recently needed to update an
nvidia GTX260 in my rig. That had only 896MB of memory and
it only gave me trouble with LiDAR clouds (not in QGIS).
The video card choice will depend on your budget. I you had
a very big budget, professional laptops for CAD will come
with pro card like Radeon Pro, or nvidia Quadro. An
alternative would be to look at Gaming laptops. Video cards
are geared towards gaming but will come with more dedicated
memory. Then, I would look at AMD based laptops with Ryzen
mobile processors with Vega Graphics, then a computer with a
dedicated nvidia card and on the bottom of the pile, an
Intel processor with integrated Intel graphics and shared
memory or and Intel with a integrated Vega (rumored).
(Current affordable desktop video cards come with 6 to 8GB
of memory) 4GB is probably good in a laptop. The reality
is that the graphic card will probably only become really
handy when OpenCL will become used more in QGIS. Since CUDA
(NVIDIA) development does not seem in the cards, and ATI-AMD
would probably be a better choice as AMD support the latest
version of OpenCL but not nvidia. For all those reasons,
(and with a hand on my wallet), my gut reaction would be to
look at the Ryzen-Vega combos first. Others will disagree
(and please do).</font></div>
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<div><font face="Avenir Next W01, Avenir Next W00, Avenir Next,
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color="#4c4c4c">That's my gut feeling for now. <br>
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<p><font color="#4c4c4c"><font face="Avenir Next W01, Avenir Next
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-03-12 12:32 p.m., Patrick
Dunford wrote:<br>
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<p>It will depend very much on the size and content of your
projects. Vector layers are very efficient in resource usage. If
you happen to use raster layers, the software dedicates a lot of
resources to caching them, so that is where insufficient memory
or swap may become an issue.</p>
<p>If you do work with large projects, adding a 100 GB or larger
SSD purely for swap purposes is a lot cheaper than 32 GB of
system RAM and not a great deal slower. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/03/19 3:46 PM, Nicolas Cadieux
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Someone will come up with a more intelligent
answer than me but I have been running QGIS with a 10 year old
dual core laptop with Windows 7-64 and 4Go of memory. I find
that the actual limits are mostly imposed by the data and the
project complexity rather than the software. An SSD did save
the laptop from the garbage bin!</div>
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<div dir="ltr">For anything serious, I use a desktop computer
that would make most gamers cry with envy...</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Nicolas</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
Le 10 mars 2019 à 17:19, Irene Vicatos <<a
href="mailto:eirinivic@yahoo.gr" moz-do-not-send="true">eirinivic@yahoo.gr</a>>
a écrit :<br>
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<div>Dear all,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I am currently working with the QGIS version 2.18 Las
Palmas but I will soon switch to the latest 3.4 LTR
version.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I have been reading through the question blog in order
to figure out which are the minimum hardware requirements
for the latest version. All previous given answers are
already outdated. More specifically, I would like to know,
since I am a laptop owner, what are the following minimum
requirements:</div>
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Disk and swap space</font><span style="color:
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