system requirements 2009

[MarioA]

A bigger issue is that 2009 will be shipping in late April. If you're going through the trouble of upgrading, you'd be wise to wait for the newest AutoCad.
Regards,
Mario

[thechinaman]

From what I've seen plain vanilla ACAD 2009 will need 1 GB RAM. Minimum. Not surprising given the requirements of operating systems these days....

[ako.office]

That is not necessarily true. A computer with a 2.3 GHz Core 2 Duo will out perform a 3.6 GHz P4. This is due to a number of factors: the processor, the bus speed and memory speed are some of them. But every Core 2 Duo computer I have used is much faster than any P4 I have used.

Dear J.Paulsen,
Check http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
I use P4 3.6 and I know that C2D much faster is than any P4 series.
My advise; I use @ home Quad core 4x3Ghz with 4Gb-ram... That is a super systeem. It is not so expensive.

[ako.office]

From what I've seen plain vanilla ACAD 2009 will need 1 GB RAM. Minimum. Not surprising given the requirements of operating systems these days....

Use 3gb-ram ! Autocad 2009 use more ram. The specification on the CAD site is not right.Use min 3GB-RAM+C2D 8400.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php