1. A simple student laptop will do the trick, and no high end CPU is needed for practicing Selenium.
2. Install and Configure Java on to your system. Visit https://www.java.com/en/download/ and download the latest Java packages, once it is downloaded run it with admins privilege.
The latest java installers automatically add Java onto the system path but it recommend to setup the environment variables for system to recognize the Java code.
Enter the Java installed path on to your environment variable using any one of the following methods on windows,
I. Through Command prompt
1. Open run using Ctrl+R, then type cmd and hit enter.
2. Enter the command "rundll32 sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables" in the command prompt to open Environment variable.
II. Through Windows Explorer
1. Right click 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'.
2. Click 'Advanced System Settings' link.
3. Click 'Advanced' tab.
4. Click 'Environment Variables...' button.
Click add and paste the Java path in it as shown in the below screenshot.
3. Download Google Chrome from https://www.google.com/chrome/.
4. Visit https://www.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/ and download the FirefoxDriver.
5. Download the IntelliJ Idea from the link https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/. Then double click the installer to install the IntelliJ on to you system.
