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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Oct 14, 2015, at 1:54 AM, Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> since you are all talking about specs to run kicad...
> Just let you know some time ago I made a small survey [1] in two electronic forum asking what are the oldest PC machine that people are still using in their projects.
> Here is a list of that old machines:
> 
> 10y old laptop: core2duo, 1.6GHz, Intel GM945, 1200x800 [quite painful experience]
> Core2Duo iMac from 2008. OS X 10.9.
> Pentium 4, 1Ghz Ram: 256MB Video: very old Ati Radeon with 256MB and OpenGL 2.0 Windows XP
> CPU: Core2Duo E4500 @ 2.2GHz GFX: GeForce 9500GT, 512MB RAM: 2GB
> Pentium 4 Nvidia 5200 128Mb, HDD 80Gb.
> P4 2xxxGHz, RAM 1GB
> HP Centrino 1.2GHz, RAM1.25GB, HDD 40GB
> Pentium 4 3.0GHz RAM: 1GB, HDD 80GB, Ati Radeon 9550 128 mb.
> 
> 
> I asked only for machines older than 5..7 years.
> Some one also pointed me that there are people running kicad in a RPi :)

I mentioned in another thread that I regularly use Kicad on an Early 2008 Core2Duo 20” iMac with 4 GB RAM. That machine runs 10.11, too. The machine’s main display is the built-in 1680 x 1050, and it’s connected to a 22” 1920 x 1200 display. Works like a champ.

-a