Our online classrooms use the Zoom video chat app, and so require one of the following operating systems:
Supported operating systems
macOS X with macOS 10.7 or later
Windows 10
Windows 8 or 8.1
Windows 7
Windows Vista with SP1 or later
Windows XP with SP3 or later
Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
Mint 17.1 or higher
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 or higher
Oracle Linux 6.4 or higher
CentOS 6.4 or higher
Fedora 21 or higher
OpenSUSE 13.2 or higher
ArchLinux (64-bit only)
Processor and RAM requirements
We’re aware that these requirements may seem scary! So we’ve included some simple guidance for checking them below.
Minimum:
Single Core 1Ghz or Higher
Recommended:
Dual Core 2Ghz or Higher (i3/i5/i7 or AMD equivalent)
4GB RAM
Checking your processor and RAM on a Mac
To check your processor speed, you can click the apple icon in your Finder menu and “about this mac”. This will open a popup window with your computer’s processing speed and RAM.
Checking your processor and RAM on a Windows PC
Open Windows 10’s ‘Setting’s app.
Navigate to Settings > System > About.
There will be a heading called “Device specifications.”
Your processor speed is the last number beside “processor” (3.6GHz here)
memory = RAM beside “Installed RAM” (12GB here)