.NET Requirements

[Mark Fox]

Hello,

I figured I would just throw this out and whatever
response I get is alright. I am looking to get a laptop
to do demos of my ASP.NET application, but I am not sure
what type of specs the laptop should have. Microsoft's
System Requirements' pages are, as always, entertaining
(they say that you could run it on a 90 Mhz CPU!). What
ballpark CPU speed/RAM should I be looking for to run a
demo of a site that uses ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000, and
IIS? Also, I know Win XP Pro comes with IIS 5.1, but
does Win2000 Pro come with a web server that I could use
ASP.NET on? If this is not enough information, I would
be happy to provide more. Thanks for your help!

 

[Karsten Grombach]

hi mark,
winXP and win2000 work fine, but both don't install iis by default. so you
will have to install it yourself.

currently i'm working on a laptop with 800mhz cpu with 512MB and I am quite
happy. Anything in this category or higher should serve your needs fine.
Obviously a lot depends on the kind of application you want to run. ...

regards
karsten

 

[Kevin Spencer]

That's WinXP Pro. WinXP Home doesn't support a web server.

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Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
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