System recommendations for your laptop
General
- DVD drive for installation
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or greater to view and print the PDF version of the COMSOL Dokumentation
- At least 4.2 GB free disk space
- Processor: at least Pentium III/K7, dual-core processor is recommended
- At least 1 GB of memory, 2 GB are recommended
- No onboard graphics card, at least 64 MB; suggestion: Nvidia graphics card
Operating system requirements
Microsoft Windows
- Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4*
- Windows XP with Service Pack 2*
- Windows Vista
* We strongly recommend using the automatic updates to keep your Windows system
Linux
- Linux 2.4.x kernel
- glibc-2.2.5
- X-Windows with 3D-support (DRI)
- Init scripts are available on the installation DVD for the following distributions: Debian version 3.0 or later, RedHat Enterprise version 4 or later, Fedora Core version 5 or later, SuSE version 10.1 or later
MAC
Intel Processor
- Mac OS X 10.4.8, 10.5
- Java 1.5 or höher (part of Mac OS X-Installation)
PowerPC Processor
- Mac OS X 10.3.1, 10.4, 10.5
- Java 1.4 or later (part of Mac OS X installation)
- Java 3D and Java Advanced Imaging
- BSD subsystem (part of Mac OS X installation)
