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What kind of computer hardware do you recommend for use with PTGui?

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What kind of computer hardware do you recommend for use with PTGui?

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PTGui will run fine on an old computer with 256 MB of RAM, and it is even possible to stitch very large panoramas on such a system. The only things you really need for large panoramas is patience, and lots of free hard disk space for temporary storage. You can see how much temporary disk space is required for a project by choosing ‘Calculate required temporary disk space’ in the Project menu of PTGui. For large panoramas, this can be several gigabytes. PTGui will at first attempt to use physical RAM memory for temporary storage. Once all available RAM is exhausted, temporary data will be written to disk. Since hard disk access is much slower than RAM access, stitching speed will benefit from the availability of enough RAM. Due to operating system limitations, the regular 32 bit Windows versions and all Mac versions can only access 2 Gigabytes of RAM. Only the 64 bit Windows version of PTGui Pro is currently able to access more than 2 GB of RAM. For the best performance we therefore rec

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