On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Pete Travis <lists(a)petetravis.com> wrote:
When I was originally drafting the Hardware Requirements copy, I
tried to
stay away from the minimum/recommended distinction. It isn't easy to draw a
line and say "on this side you will have a great experience, and on this
side you will have a merely functional experience, and across this other
line it probably won't run at all." I think users can generally understand
"more is better", and make an appropriate judgment based on explanation of
the factors involved and available options. Following that line of
thinking, we could say *suggest* at least 2GB of RAM, with a caveat that
less RAM might be a compromise some could find acceptable, and more RAM
would be better.
WRT the actual figure, systems that are preconfigured with 2GB of RAM are
probably going to be mid/high Pentium 4 era systems, or low/mid range
Core2Dou era systems with i915 -ie 4 years or more out of production. A
I don't think we want to encourage installing Workstation on any
32-bit platform.
josh