[Qgis-user] minimum requirement on windows

[Ron Bentley]

Just to add to last week's user experiences with minimum requirements:

I had occasion to test a large QGis project (~ 270 layers) on several 
older XP laptops about 6 months ago using QGis 1.4.  The data source was 
Postgres/PostGIS running on the same machine.  The project would open 
and was usable on machines with just 1 GB RAM.  500 MB was not enough -- 
those machines started swapping and response time was far too slow. 
However, a smaller project (~75 layers) worked just fine on the laptops 
with only 500 MB RAM.

I personally run 1.4 on a netbook (Ubuntu, 1 GB RAM, 1.6 GHz Atom, 
Postgres/PostGIS in the background).  The rendering is sometimes slower 
than I would like, but that's on vector layers with 100,000 elements.

I've seem QGis running on an industrial-style tablet where the 
"keyboard" consists of buttons on either side of the screen.  That was 
running XP, but I didn't get the specs of the machine.

Ron Bentley