IDEA on a PowerBook G4 1.25GHz

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jonck@vanderkogel.net - 21 Jan 2005 16:19 GMT

Hi,
I have worked with Eclipse mainly, but have been hearing great things
about IntelliJ IDEA. However, on their website I read that the minimum
requirements for OS X is a 1.42 GHz G4, whereas I only have a PowerBook
with a 1.25GHz G4. Does anyone have any experience with running IDEA on
a PowerBook? Could you share with me how it performs?
Thanks very much, Jonck

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Scott Ellsworth - 22 Jan 2005 00:52 GMT

> However, on [IntelliJ] website I read that the minimum
> requirements for OS X is a 1.42 GHz G4, whereas I only have a PowerBook
> with a 1.25GHz G4. Does anyone have any experience with running IDEA on
> a PowerBook? Could you share with me how it performs?

I use it all the time now on a 1.5GHz G4 17" powerbook, but I was using
it on a TiBook/667 until last April, and it worked well enough.

You do spot some lag every now and then, but at the time, Eclipse was
worse. Both have changed dramatically in the last 10 months, of course,
but I am still using the same version I used on the TiBook.

Do make sure you give it a lot of RAM. I have 1G on the TiBook, and it
worked well.

Scott

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