What hardware specs do you do your Unity 3D development on?

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I’m in the process of purchasing a new laptop and want to get one with enough horsepower so it can function smoothly while doing Unity3D v5.0 development.

With that in mind, I’m curious if any of you are developing on the preview version of Unity3D v5.0, what spec of machines are you using?

The information I’d like to know is:

  1. What OS?
  2. What CPU speed?
  3. How much RAM?
  4. What video card?
  5. How much RAM on the video card?
  6. Will the specs given here suffice? http://unity3d.com/unity/system-requirements (Note they don’t suggest RAM, CPU, video card RAM, etc., which I would like to know from your experiences).

If you don’t mind answering this short survey, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Unity has very low system requirements. For a very long time I was developing on a Windows 7 laptop with a single core 2ghz processor, 2 gbs of ram, and an integrated graphics card without running into any problems other than a bit longer compile times though I only made mobile projects.

Something you don’t have on your list that I would say is very important for speed is an SSD.

3

I’m working on a Core i3, 8GB RAM, 1GB NVidia GPU.

There is no answer on the survey even close to what I’m using.