Hi, I asked this question a while back and I don't think anybody responded so, at the risk of being a supreme annoyance, I'm going to ask again.
What does everyone -- especially those who actually ship commercial products done with Rev -- believe to be the lowest common denominator hardware/software configuration for adequate performance? My question is prompted by two things. First, when demo-ing my master's project (an intro to Rev done in Rev), it was on 128 MB RAM PII machines running Windows2000. And performance really sucked. The same thing on a G4 128MB RAM Mac in OS 9.2 was tolerable/sucked much less. Also, I've noticed that students' files on their PC laptops (unknown processor) with 128 MB RAM run less well than on our lab Macs described above. Additionally, on said lab Macs, I've noticed that when students are working on multimedia-intensive stacks, that if they run the animation/sound/QT movie enough times, the stack simply grinds to a halt and refuses to play the media; quitting Rev and relaunching seems to solve the problem, which doesn't occur/occur as frequently with a Mac with 512 MB RAM and OS 10.x. Second, knowing what this lowest common denominator is is important for deployment in education (and if anyone wonders why I keep harping on this market, notice that Rev's ONLY ed bulk license deal on their website is for K-12/pre-higher ed). I note that Rev's website notes that compiled apps can run under Windows 3.11, which I find extremely difficult to believe. Even if it does, my experience with 128 MB RAM/PII/Win2000 is that nobody in their right mind would *want* it to. Mind you, I'm not *complaining* that it doesn't run well under Win3.11, merely that it shouldn't be oversold such that people (maybe middle schools with PI or PII machines running Win95/98) don't buy it thinking it will be an ideal solution and then be thoroughly disgusted with its performance or lack thereof. The other thing is that I don't see any reference at all to required processor. I'd like to do whatever I can to make Rev embraceable to the K-12 and teacher ed community, so understanding just how low we can *reasonably* go is critically important. Judy _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
