[PD] min hardware?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 7, 2005, at 12:00 PM, michael gardner wrote:

> i'm new to Pd, and am really anxious to dig deep on it, but my laptop  
> is fritzing out and needs repair.  was considering using another  
> machine temporarily... in ya'lls experience what's the minimum  
> suggested hardware for Pd?  would it run ok on an old pentium II?  i'd  
> like to just pick up an old machine at the goodwill or on ebay, but  
> dont want to waste my time if Pd is CPU-intensive.

I've done a lot of working using PII 400 machines and you can do quite  
a bit with them if you are not doing video processing or heavy audio  
synthesis.  I've used a Pentium 133 laptop to run a patch that  
controlled 20 samples and it worked fine.

.hc

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