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Desktop/Laptop Requirements

CPU/RAM Requirements for Older NaturallySpeaking Releases

For professionals planning to dictate at least 15 minutes per day who are acquiring a new system, the choice today is simple. Get the fastest system you can.
For those of you trying to use older versions of NaturallySpeaking, in general terms the system requirements for good performance were as follows:

  • Release 1: 200MHz CPU, 96MB RAM
  • Release 2: 266MHz CPU, 128MB RAM
  • Release 3: 300MHz CPU, 128MB RAM
  • Release 4: 400MHz CPU, 192MB RAM
  • Release 5: 500MHz CPU, 256MB RAM

On these older systems, Video RAM was a factor, with 8MB Video being better that the then-popular 1MB and 2MB video systems.

Sound cards were even more important then than today. Older laptop systems had notoriously bad sound systems in most cases.

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