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Minimum Requirements

 
Insight Broadband is able to give you speeds up to 170 times faster than a 56K telephone modem. With streaming video and other bandwidth-intensive multimedia applications becoming standard over the Internet, more powerful computers are needed to handle the performance needs to analyze the data.

In order for you to experience all that the Internet has to offer, Insight Broadband has established the following minimum requirements for your PC will need to have in order to fully experience our service.

System Qualification tool [.exe | 204k]

Windows Operating Systems

Operating System

RAM Memory

Processor (CPU) Speed

Hard Drive Free Space

CD-ROM Drive

Windows NT 4.0 Workstation

64 MB of RAM (128 MB of RAM recommended)

200 MHz processor speed

150 MB

Required

Windows 2000 Professional

64 MB of RAM (128 MB of RAM recommended)

233 MHz processor speed (300 MHz recommended)

150 MB

Required

Windows XP (Home or Professional)

128 MB of RAM (256 MB of RAM recommended)

233 MHz processor speed (300 MHz recommended)

150 MB

Required

Windows Vista

512 MB (1GB of RAM recommended)

1.0 GHz

15.0 GB

Required

 

Macintosh Operating Systems

Operating System

RAM Memory

Processor (CPU) Speed

Hard Drive Free Space

CD-ROM Drive

Macintosh 8.5 - 8.6.1

32 MB of RAM (64 MB recommended)

G3 or better processor

50 MB

Required

Macintosh 9.0 - 9.22

64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended)

G3 or better processor

50 MB

Required

Macintosh OSX 10.0 (Tiger)

128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)

G3 or better processor

50 MB

Required

Macintosh OSX 10.5 (Leopard)

512 MB of RAM

Intel or G4 (867 MHz+)

9.0 GB

DVD-ROM required