Hallo, what's the minimum of hardware to develop Zope-sites(only for development). I'd like to know because I want to buy a laptop and don't want to spend much money ! Thanks.
I use an old toshiba 325 cds (cd broken) (460 bogomips) w/ 48Mb of ram running Linux as both my desktop and portable machine for all sorts of development (Including Zope). Works fine as a desktop machine. Kind of a pain to plug/unplug the cables all the time. I can run a couple of zopes, pgsql, heck I even had Oracle on it for a while. You might need a bit more oomph for java development. The problem with the laptop is probably not the CPU/ram (well, get 64MB ram if you can) but the screen resolution and the pointer. Zope at 600x800 is tight. The little eraser-head pointer is a pain, and Zope development tends to need a lot of mouse action. I usually carry along a mouse. Even on the desktop (i.e with a monitor and keyboard plugged in) I am limited to 1024x768 8-bit color with a bad refresh rate. -- cary