<div dir="ltr">Hi Bill, I don't have dictate, but my general rule is to take them at their word. From the variety of previous responses, any Mac with a Core 2 Duo should be fine. <div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; ">System Requirements</span><br>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 19px; "><p style="left: 20px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); line-height: 18px; "><b>Intel-based Mac</b><br>Mac OS X 10.4.11 or greater "Tiger"<br>
Mac OS X 10.5.1 or greater "Leopard"<br>Internet connection required for product registration.</p></span></div><div>Slightly different than Chuck, I usually suggest people buy at the lower end of the scale, but buy the latest version when it comes out. Every six months you can wait you get a better computer. With Snow Leopard coming next year, I would look for any Mac that has native support for 4gb of installed Ram. The early Core 2 Duo machines only take 3 mb of ram because they have an older chipset.<div>
<br></div><div>-jon<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>p.s. there's a nice series of articles that talks about Apple's transition to 64bits at AppleInsider.com: <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/03/road_to_mac_os_x_snow_leopard_64_bits_santa_rosa_and_the_great_pc_swindle.html">Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bits, Santa Rosa, and more</a> </div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:43 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chesnutt@it.net.au">chesnutt@it.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello all,<br>
<br>
Could anybody on the list who is using Dictate successfully let the<br>
rest of us know the specs of the machines they are using. MacSpeech<br>
on their website just seem to say that any intel macintosh will do,<br>
but that is not really very helpful. For instance, doe it run ok on<br>
a Mini or a MacBook? And with how much RAM? Would 1 gig cut it?<br>
Would 2 be better? Would 4 be better still? At what point does "more<br>
is better" become overkill? And likewise with the CPU - will an<br>
iMac suffice, or would a multi-core MacPro really make a noticeable<br>
difference?<br>
<br>
TIA<br>
<br>
Bill Chesnutt<br>
Perth, Western Australia<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>