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)