[Qgis-user] Qgis minimum hardware requirements

[Patrick Dunford]

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.

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.

On 11/03/19 3:46 PM, Nicolas Cadieux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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!
>
> For anything serious, I use a desktop computer that would make most 
> gamers cry with envy...
>
> Nicolas
>
> Le 10 mars 2019 à 17:19, Irene Vicatos <eirinivic at yahoo.gr 
> <mailto:eirinivic at yahoo.gr>> a écrit :
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am currently working with the QGIS version 2.18 Las Palmas but I 
>> will soon switch to the latest 3.4 LTR version.
>>
>> 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 All previous given answers are already outdated.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:
>>
>>   * 1) Speed of CPU and how many cores.
>>
>> 2) How much disk space is needed for installation.
>>
>> 3) Size of Hard Disk and swap space.
>>
>>  *
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>>   * 4) Minimum RAM memory.
>>  *
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>>   * 5) Display and screen resolution and lastly.
>>
>> 6) Graphics memory.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance and looking forward to your answer.
>>
>> Irene Vikatou
>>
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