Tenho um P3 900Mhz, 256MB de RAM com um XP Professional. A instalação trava na metade. Já no P4 256MB de RAM e Windows 2000 Professional , a mesma instalação rodou normalmente. Ambas as máquinas tem exatamente a mesma versão do JDK.
Configuração mínima (fonte: www.netbeans.com) NetBeans 3.5.1 ID
* Disk space: 125 Mbytes
* Memory: 256 Mbytes
* Processor: PIII/500 processor (Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems), Ultra 10 450 MHz workstation (SolarisTM operating system), 500MHz Alpha (Open VMS operating system) or equivalent
Sistema Operacional
NetBeans IDE runs on operating systems that support JavaTM 2 SDK, Standard Edition. Below is a list of platforms that NetBeans IDE has been tested on.
* Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, 2000, and XP operating systems
* Solaris operating system (SPARC® Platform Edition), versions 7, 8 and 9
* Linux Red Hat versions 7.2 and 8.0
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Baixe o novo sdk+netbeans, esse clock aí tá ótimo!