Quadralay's Workstation Specification
Here's our current ideal specification for our own staff (developers, consultants, technical support) that require regular desktop conversions using any ePublisher component (AutoMap, Express, Pro).
Keep in mind that our technical staff members need to be able to work within pristine VMware sessions running instances of large AutoMap conversion jobs, while still working on other tasks. This setup allows our staff to use a single computer for all their daily activities.
System Components
Processor
Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz/1066MHz/2X4MB (L2/Quad-core/VT)
Operating System
Genuine Windows® XP Professional, SP2 with media
Memory
4GB, 667MHz, DDR2 SDRAM Memory, ECC (4 DIMMS)
Graphics Card
128MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX550, Dual DVI
Boot Hard Drive
80GB SATA, 10K RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache
Data Hard Drive
Raid 0 (2 drives), each drive is: 320GB SAS 3.0Gb/s with NCQ and 16MB DataBurst Cache
Other Options
For a server machine, Windows Server 2003 is fine, just be sure to disable unneeded services.