[GRASS-user] machine specs

[Richard Chirgwin]

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> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:48:44 -0800
> From: Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] machine specs
> To: nicholas.g.lawrence at mainroads.qld.gov.au
> Cc: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> nicholas.g.lawrence at mainroads.qld.gov.au wrote:
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>> I am considering purchasing a cheap second-hand laptop to install linux on,
>> and also GRASS.
>>
>> I want to be able to run GRASS on the laptop.
>>
>> I do not intend to do heavy processing. I only want to demonstrate
>> GRASS, show of the various features and prove that it works.
>>
>> What minimum hardware specifications are recommended for GRASS?
>>
>> Regards,
>> nick
>>
>>     
Well, I don't do really heavy stuff, but for most of the time, GRASS
runs fine on my Acer 5315 + OpenSUSE 10.3. So it's 2 GHz Intel, 1GB RAM,
and I upgraded the hard drive to 160 GB from the original 80 GB. If
you're just demo-ing, that might be sufficient (and really cheap).

Richard Chirgwin