I was using a 2010 toshiba laptop to dev on (intel i3 2.27GHz [M350]) with 2gb ram and a standard low-speed spindle hd.
It was solo'able for the most part..though, I did have a lot of graphics options turned down.
The guys made some changes over the last year that really brought down the server's cpu load.
Most of what you'll going to be dealing with is the client itself.
Note: If you're experiencing longer than 30-second zone times and your client is 'disconnecting' after 1-2 minutes, try enabling 'use map mmfs' in cmake.
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