2 articles tagged system-requirements.
Claude Desktop was my introduction to AI and it's still the best on-ramp to useful AI at work, so in today's guide I'm taking the system-requirements question the way I'd answer it for a client: the official minimums, the July change that moved Cowork into the cloud, what still runs on your machine, and why the laptop you own is probably fine.
mcp · system-requirements
In today's guide, we're setting up Claude Code on Mac, Windows and Linux in the forms it now ships in: the terminal CLI, the Code tab in the Claude Desktop app, and the VS Code and Cursor extension. The published spec, the install routes Anthropic recommends, Fable 5.1 on every paid plan, and why the machine matters less than the way you work.
claude-code · cli