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Can I run Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code by Microsoft: the publisher’s own system requirements, checked against your exact laptop.

Minimum requirements

CPU: 1.6 GHz or faster processor
RAM: 1 GB
OS: Currently supported 64-bit Windows client versions; macOS with active security updates (typically the latest release and the two previous versions); Linux: Ubuntu Desktop 20.04, Debian 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Fedora 36

Recommended requirements

Not yet verified.

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Which laptops can reach 1 GB of RAM?

291 of 317 laptops in our database support at least 1 GB of RAM (the model’s documented maximum). That is capacity, not what ships in the box — check your exact configuration, and see whether your model’s RAM can be upgraded.

Where these requirements come from

Microsoft (Visual Studio Code docs) — Visual Studio Code Requirements · retrieved 9/19/2026

minimum: Official disk footprint is "< 500 MB" (download "< 200 MB"). Linux needs GLIBCXX 3.4.25+ and GLIBC 2.28+.

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