visual studio .net setup: Sorry if off topic.
I really need to get a laptop computer for doing homework with and Visual
Studio .Net and
..Oracle 9i.
but I don't have alot of money. What is the minimum
processor and memory you would suggest or have been
successful with. Thanks
Dave

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I'll try to answer from my experience with Visual Studio .NET 2003,
Professional Edition, Personal Oracle 9i database and Oracle Developer Tools
v9.04.

The most important resource is memory. I would not consider less than 512
Meg for this software combination, even though the minimums for each
software package are 256 Meg or less.
For a CPU, try to get something in the 2 GHZ + range if AMD, higher if
Intel.


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Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.

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No, I'm not saying that a slower CPU won't do the job. I believe minimums
provided by Microsoft and Oracle are in the 7 - 800 MHz range. However, from
your original post I got the impression that you will have Oracle 9i and
VS.NET running at the same time, and that ups the ante on hardware
resources.
As I said previously, the amount of memory, is *far* more important than an
extra 200 - 300 MHz on your CPU.
In my humble opinion, you can get away with a CPU in the 1 - 2 GHz range
*if* you have adequate memory.
If you get less than 512 Meg of memory, you'll have to be *very* patient.

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Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.

Thanks. I cannot afford a 2ghz processor.Are you saying 1ghz won't do the
job?
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One of my test machines, here at Microsoft met the following specifications:

733Mhz PIII
384MB SDRAM
20GB HDD

I did not use Oracle, but was able to run Windows 2000 Server with both MS
SQL 2000A Developer Edition and Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise
Architect with no problems. I will admit, it did not run as fast as my
newer systems, but it did the job. The real test for you will be to see
how well your machine runs when compiling. Oracle can add a lot of
overhead CPU/RAM usage and that could definitely prove to have a
performance impact on Visual Studio. I believe you can get away with the
1GHz processor, but I concur with Peter in saying that you should have at
least 512MB RAM. In fact, 1GB would work wonders in light of the slower
processor. Disk swapping not only takes time that direct access to RAM
does not, but it also causes plenty of CPU load that could be better used
by your applications.

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