System requirements for Gnucash

[Eric]

Thanks.  I'm leaning in that direction.

I was wondering if anyone had any experiences with using it on a linux system in the 512-768 mb RAM/500-650 mhz CPU range, using Debian with a light window manager (i.e. Blackbox, Icewm, JWM, etc.)



--- On Thu, 10/2/08, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: System requirements for Gnucash
> To: bigbsdfan at yahoo.com
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:46 PM
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Eric
> <bigbsdfan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to decide whether to dump $500 on a new
> laptop or spend $150 to refurbish a pretty decent Latitude
> CPx.  The Latitude has a 650mhz cpu, and if I refurbish it
> the RAM would be 512 mb.  One of the key programs that I
> plan on using on the laptop is Gnucash with Debian Linux,
> regardless of which laptop I get.
> >
> > I've run Gnucash on desktop systems with the same
> amount of RAM (512 mb) but with faster CPU's and it ran
> well.  I also tried running it on an older Vaio with 112 mb
> RAM and a 600mhz cpu, and it crawled.  I am thinking it was
> the ram, and not the cpu speed, that was the limiting factor
> on the Vaio, but am not sure.
> >
> > I am wondering if there are recommended system
> requirements for Gnucash in terms of RAM and CPU speed, and
> if so, what those are.
> 
> I can't answer that question directly, but can tell you
> of my
> experiences. I've run gnucash on a bunch of different
> laptops. The
> slowest, (which I still have though I don't use it
> much), is a
> Thinkpad 600x with a 650 Mhz PIII processor, 512 Kb of
> memory, and a
> 5400 rpm disk running Ubuntu 8.04. I would describe it as
> barely
> usable on that machine; I wouldn't want to have to use
> it all the time
> on that hardware. The startup time is bothersome, and
> things about
> gnucash that are slow (e.g., some reports, qif import) are
> pretty
> unbearable. For the most part, I run gnucash on a Thinkpad
> X61 with
> dual 2.1 Ghz Core 2 Duo processors, 2 Gb memory, and a 7200
> rpm disk.
> It runs great on that machine, though qif imports and some
> reports are
> still slower than I think they ought to be. The whole thing
> is
> noticeably slower, though still very usable, on my Thinkpad
> G41 with a
> 3.06 Ghz Xeon processor, 2 Gb of memory and a 7200 rpm
> disk.
> 
> My recommendation? I think you would be throwing good money
> after bad
> if you were to invest in "refurbishing" the 650
> Mhz Latitude. I'm not
> sure what you can buy "new" for $500, as you
> suggest in your post, but
> there's a lot of amazing hardware out there today for
> very reasonable
> prices. I'd go for something contemporary and give the
> Latitude to a
> school or a child you know.
> 
> /Don
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