This is a question that may best be answered by one of the developers. However, I can tell you that I have a Windows XP/Pro SP3 laptop with a 1.5 GHz Pentium M Processor and 2 GB of RAM. It is by no means the latest and greatest--and wasn't when I bought it used. I have InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS2, Scribus, FrameMaker 7.2 and many other odds and ends on this computer for technical writing tools.
I frequently run InDesign and Photoshop simultaneously without problems. When bought it, I was told to upgrade from 512 MB of RAM to 2 GB of RAM in order to make that happen. I did just that, and have had no problems so far. I am not--yet--an experienced Scribus user, but the projects I have experimented with so far (business cards, single page flyer), have not taxed either Scribus or the computer. I intend to try a 12 page newsletter soon, but I don't anticipate any problems. Perhaps if you intend to create a 30 page (or 100 page) high quality, graphics intensive printed brochure you might need more RAM or processor power. I leave that to those more knowledgeable about Scribus than I am. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:35 AM, G. Beck <g.beck at gruenes-blatt.de> wrote: > Hi. > I'm planning to buy a computer for my layout workings and as I have > no idea about the standards nowadays I'd like to take advantage of > your experience. How much RAM, processor capacity... do I need to > run Scribus in a comfortable way (no sudden crashs etc.)? > > > G.Beck > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080925/87a8f908/attachment.htm>
