That said, we list in Table 1-1 thepractical minima for running NetBeans on severalpopular platforms. These are of necessity somewhat subjective. Onerule of thumb is that serious developers should take our word on theminima, but you can get by with less machine than we recommend if youonly plan to explore NetBeans lightly (preparatory to findingyourself a more satisfactory platform on which to do seriousdevelopment).