Soliciting hardware recommendations

Syed.Hosain at aeris.net Syed.Hosain at aeris.net
Wed Jul 15 07:57:28 PDT 2009


>> If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at
>> 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives 
>> (RAID 0 might
>> be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business
>> 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will
>> have *more* than enough power to run FrameMaker with excellent
>> performance. This should cost under $1000 or so ... depending on the
>> other options you want on it.

> Of course you can continue to use a Mac system.
> Only a correction regarding Vista 64 bit. As far
> as I know FrameMaker does not run on 64 bit Vista.
> That was posted here several times.

Hmmm .. I have not seen that posted before. It is not an issue as far as
I am concerned. I have FrameMaker 8.0 running fine under Vista 64-bit
and now using it on Windows 7 64-bit without any problems either.

Z



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