Judy, While none of my programs are multi-media intensive, I tend to try for Win95, 100Mhz+, 8MB Ram and 2 Mbs of disk space as my minimum. On the Macintosh side, I prefer System 7.5+, 80Mhz, 8MB Ram and 2 Mbs of disk space.
But what I don't do is put restrictions in my software like some companies do. If you can get my software to run on Win 3.1 with 4mb's ram then Hey, congratulations. I won't provide support for it, but if it works then that's just fine and dandy. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software ____________________________________________ Compress Images Easily with JPEGCompress http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 1:37 PM Subject: How low can we really go? > 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 >
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