Any suggestion about the minimal hardware spec.

hi all
I'm very new to Qt programming on S60. I developped S60 application using S60 SDK. and switch to Qt now.

But I found Qt takes enormous time to compile, even it is a blank project. how can i do any programming when launcuing emulator become a 5~8 min task.

so, does any has suggestion about hardware spec. that can work smoothly on Qt. Thank you.:)

PS: my environment is
Windows XP running on Intel P4 3.0G with RAM 1.5 GB
I installed Carbide C++ V2.0 with Qt 4.6 on Symbian SDK 5.