Logos Bible Software Computer Requirements
Nakita Heitmann
Notes are delivered in Microsoft Office Word format optimized for use with Logos. Once the notes for each course have been completed by the student, they can be imported into Logos. This means that as they use Logos in the future for Bible study, their Bible Institute notes including the content provided to them and the notes which they type in themselves are a fully searchable resource that is electronically linked with their textbooks and other resources within their Logos package.
Once a student has their wordoflife.edu email account, they can log in to Canvas and receive their course content and schedules. They can also use the Canvas app on their mobile device to lookup schedules and receive notifications.
The IT team will assist students with installing the software Word of Life provides. This service is provide free of charge. Beyond this, any kind of service or repair is subject to standard fees which are published in the IT Service Center on Campus.
Logos and Microsoft offers free apps for the iPad, iPhone, Android, and Kindle Fire. They have limited functionality and cannot do everything that the Logos software can do on a Windows or Mac computer. Most importantly, you cannot integrate your class notes the way you can on the computer.
To take notes with a mobile device, you would need to use an app that allows you to type your notes in a Word (.docx) document. We do not recommend students use mobile devices instead of a laptop computer. In instances where a tablet computer is used, a physical keyboard will be needed.
Maybe. The Logos Bible Software requires the Windows operating system. Windows RT is not supported. The Atom processor will run the Logos Bible Software, but your performance maybe slow. A keyboard is recommended to facilitate quick note-taking. We STRONGLY recommend that you use a real laptop.
View the current minimum system requirements from Logos at -requirements.
Unlikely. They usually do not have enough storage space or power to run the academic software. The Logos Bible Software requires the Windows operating system.
We STRONGLY recommend that you use a real laptop.
View the current minimum system requirements from Logos at -requirements.
As long as you have an SSD large enough for your library and everything else you'd need you'll be fine. Hard drive speed is the most critical factor for running Logos. There are other considerations if you are running lots of linked reports but for shear library size it's all about using an SSD.
I used this in my own evaluation and decided to double the RAM to 32GB, pick a slightly more robust i9 processor and get more storage space since I have a lots of files besides a big Logos library. I do lots of other things on the computer, so my needs are more demanding. Logos loads very fast on this machine. The newer gen processors from Intel and AMD are even better. YMMV but you do not need a huge horsepower custom high end desktop, mine is a Dell XPS 15 laptop.
The most I've ever seen this laptop bogged down was in rendering a 1-hour HD video I recorded, & even then I wouldn't have noticed anything going on in the background---just took much longer than usual (about 20 minutes) than I'm used to waiting to complete.
I didn't choose to invest in the fastest CPU, since (after 25 yr in IT before becoming a full time pastor) I didn't believe that to be a bottleneck for anything I'd be doing. (So far, I haven't regretted that.)
For every component, I commend buying at the knee of the price performance curve. For every component, you can pay a small incremental price for a performance upgrade, till you get to some point--when the price starts increasing steeply. That's the knee...
I reading the Logos 9 wish list post and noticed all the post about how slow the program loads...
I....
The main boss computer is a 27" 3.8 Ghz quad i5 iMac with 8gb of ram and a 2Tb ssd, my lap top is 2 Ghz i7 with 16Gb of ram and a 500gb SSD windows machine. The laptop sometimes slows down if it has to index new collections of books. Nothing slows the iMac down for very long. I asked the question, because I too got that minimum system requirements information a few years ago... and every computer I've bought since then... I made sure it had as much horsey power and memory as I could get... without going into gaming machine money.
The iMac I got because my wife uses Adobe Creative Suite, which can be enough to choke any computer. I've talked to a database engineer and he said the underlying database wasn't written to be as fast as it could be... but... if... your spending the kind of money , that really large resource collections require and your going to use it really hard... is it really unreasonable to expect to have to get a pretty muscular computer.
I mean even my little collection of 3400 books... cost 4 times... what the iMac cost.
For what it's worth, I prefer to use a custom-built desktop system (even tho I own a Lenovo Yoga laptop). My preference for the custom desktop is because off-the-shelf units from system builders tend to be de-tuned to keep the heat and speeds lower for the sake of higher reliability (consequently, fewer service calls - i.e., lower cost to the manufacturer). I believe this de-tuning is particularly true with laptops. For example, the Lenovo has a locked down bios - you can adjust basic, inconsequential things like date, time, ports, etc. but you are not able to get to any speed/overclocking settings for the cpu or the memory or the buses.
If, however, you assemble your own desktop system using carefully chosen components from various component manufacturers, you'll find a completely open bios where you'll have a great deal of flexibility in setting it up. For example, the past few years I have preferred motherboards from ASRock since, not only is the bios completely accessible, but they have several pre-designed and tested overclocking modes available - just click on the speed/performance you desire and you're all set to go. Clarification: I am not some crazy, overclocking nut living in my parents' basement using liquid Nitrogen as a coolant ... I just want as much performance as I can reasonably get without unnecessarily driving up the cost of the system or jeopardizing the reliability.
I should also point out that, if you have a good idea of what components you want, and are a careful shopper, it's not difficult to build a very fast, high performance system at a price that is significantly less than a similarly equipped box from a system builder. Plus, once you get past the initial cost of such things as the case, power supply, memory, etc. you can periodically upgrade individual components in order to freshen the performance of your system (I'm thinking here particularly of the motherboard/cpu) - and it can be done for far less $$ than replacing the entire system - thus, you can potentially keep the same basic system going strong for years.
And, as a side note, if you are not a techno-geek, and building your own system sounds a bit daunting, well, there's always a 14 year old lurking around somewhere who could do it for you ... \_(ツ)_/
Would a laptop with 10th Gen i7-10510U, 16gb Ram, 512gb ssd, NVIDIA GeForce MX250 with 2GB GDDR5 graphics memory...be a good computer for Logos? I'm upgrading from no graphics card, 8gb ram, older i5 processor.
Thanks JRS. I just watched all three videos in this serious on how to build your own computer and it doesn't seem as easy as you make it out. I am looking to get a custom built desktop, but I think I'll have the folks like OriginPC build it for me.
If that is not possible, then Logos 8+ allows you to select a smaller/minimal installation. Which means that the above 32 GB full installation only uses 15 GB with 480 books downloaded. The remaining books are still listed in Library, and can be easily downloaded.
Note that all your Datasets (c. 5 GB) + all your Documents will be in both installations.
The simple answer is to avoid the need for Administrator rights (permission elevation) every time it is installed, updated or run; particularly during the frequent background updates. This is becoming common, and is what Google Chrome does, for example.
Another factor is that Logos requires a login with a unique user identity, so Logos decided it would be much easier to install in the user profile. This also supports a church (or home) computer shared by two people who WANT separate Logos accounts, profiles, settings (and resource collections).
For two separate users on the same computer you will need to install Logos in two user profiles. If you install the same Logos account in different user profiles (or different computers) it will sync settings, documents, history, etc. between those two installations.
It is possible to install Logos onto another computer without downloading and/or indexing if you use an unofficial procedure to copy resources and indexes from the first installation.
For Windows, Quick Installation onto multiple computers
For macOS, Quick Installation onto Multiple Macs
For Windows: Use Control Panel >> Programs and Features to Uninstall, which will remove all your resources, so if you wish to avoid a subsequent large download then backup the \Resources folder before uninstalling and use Quick Installation onto multiple computers to reinstall.
For macOS, use Uninstalling Logos for Mac
When new or updated resources are added to your library they are built into a temporary Supplemental index which is then merged with the existing Index. Thus the time taken is considerably less than a full Index.
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