anyone have personal experience of minimum machine specs for a .Net app

[Mitch Olson]

Hi

our company is just about to embark on developing a PIM-type application and
would like to use .NET (VB6 is our distant option 2).

The question we are currently investigating is whether the minimum machine
requirements (processor speed & memory) will rule out too much of our target
market (the universe of Windows users, well at least W98+ users). Our
primary question is what is the minimum specification of a machine to run a
relatively sophisticated application (using MSDE)? (& fyi, our second
inquiry is trying to find some stats on what the installed base of
Windows-based computers looks like).

I have read Microsoft's specs, but always take these with a grain of salt
(90MHz+, 32Mb+ RAM) so I am looking for information from developers about
their real-world experiences of deploying their .Net applications
(preferably database-based apps & even more preferably MSDE-based ones) into
the "field". I'm not just interested in whether the application can be
installed & run, but also whether it runs with sufficient performance to
meet the user's expectations based upon other applications they may also run
on that same machine.

The information I am looking for will ultimately help me to determine that
the real-world minimum spec for a .Net app is x Mhz & y Mb RAM. Any one out
there with some grounded experience of x & y with one or more .Net
applications deployments.

any assistance much appreciated

regards


Mitch Olson

 

[EricJ]

i would guess it wil depend on your app
but here i have .net1.1 and apps running on NT4 300Mhz 128MBram pc's
they are slower but workable

 

[Morgan]

My main machine specs are similar to Erics. 700MHZ, 128RAM, XP Pro and
larger apps are very slow.
Things seem to run more acceptably with at least 1GHZ and 256RAM. Im
guessing *most people dont yet have these higher specs though I would
suspect *most professionals would. So it depends on your target user as
well.