Re: WDSCi Configuration For LapTop.

> My organization is willing to cough up the cash for a laptop. I want to
> ensure that what I get is able to run WDSCi 6.0 at an appropriate speed.
> I understand that 2gb Ram is a wise choice. Does anyone have any advice
> or recommendations for remaining specifications?

I think the RAM requirements that get tossed around are wildly overblown.
It all depends on what you plan on doing in WDSC and what else you do on
your PC.  WDSC can run fine on a PC with 512 MB of RAM, especially if all
of you are doing is RPG editing.

If you plan on doing a lot of J2EE and plan on living in the WebSphere Test
Environment, then, yes get as much RAM as you can.  1.5 GB is plenty and
that is the most you can get on a lot of laptops.

A major component of the speed of WDSC is the disk subsystem.
Unfortunately, this is not great on laptops and terrible on some laptops.
Get the best hard disk you can.

All of our laptop users have Thinkpad T42's with 1.5 GB of RAM and they
work very well.  Most of them also use VMWare which eats a lot of RAM when
you are using it, and it still works fine.  I work on a desktop, but I
frequently run WDSC inside VMWare sessions and still get excellent
performance.

Mark


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