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Originally posted by CookieRevised
4Gb is also the absolute minimum for Win7 64bit to run smoothly
I've been using Win7 64 since beta and it runs just fine with 2GB...
I can run MATLAB with my Quad Q6600, but I've only used for simple calculations so far, and it's almost instantly even for not so simple integrations. But my brother has an identical PC running XP 32-bit and he runs MATLAB smoothly doing this complex calculations (I don't know what he does). He also runs AutoCAD Inventor fine.
In my opinion, you could start with 4GB and then buy more when needed.
You could maybe add a bluray drive, in case you watch movies... but I don't know if it's cheap or not. No idea.
And a final tip about MATLAB if you have never used the 64-bit version, its usage is different of the 32, so you may want install both until you get used to the 64-bit.
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