peterlorin wrote:How much disk space do I need on my PC (Windows) to install Hauptwerk 7?
Once installed, the difference in drive space requirements between Hauptwerk v6 and v7 should be negligible. However, we recommend having at least 6 GB of free space for running Hauptwerk's installer.
peterlorin wrote:And will it work with Windows 7 professional?
Yes -- all platforms that were supported for v7 are also still supported for v7.
You can find the full v7 prerequisites document via the 'Prerequisites' link near the top-right of this page on the website: https://www.hauptwerk.com/requirements/
peterlorin wrote:I believe you still recommend Apple computers? I am considering Apple for a future "big" computer.
This is what the Hauptwerk prerequisites document says on the subject:
If you are considering buying a computer to run Hauptwerk and you do not have much experience with building computers, diagnosing driver and hardware compatibilities, and so forth, then we would recommend either buying an Apple Mac (Apple Macs should give reliable performance 'out of the box') or buying a PC from a company that offers ready-made high-performance PCs specifically designed, tested and supported for use with Hauptwerk.
However, note that we don't officially yet support Apple's new Apple-CPU Macs. This is the excerpt that covers that:
The only Macs officially supported at this point in time are those with Intel CPUs. However, we understand that Hauptwerk does work and perform very well on Apple's new Macs with Apple ARM-based CPUs (running under Apple's Rosetta translator), with no known additional problems at the time of writing, and we’ll provide support on them for issues that can be reproduced on one of our primary supported Mac platforms listed above, and that don’t appear to be related to the platform.