The absolute minimum for W7 ?

Dicehunter · 11 May 2010 at 14:48

Just got myself a nice laptop and was wondering if I should get windows 7 if its up to it that is as it didnt come with an OS, any help is appreciated

Specs-

AMD Athlon QL66 2.5GHz
4GB RAM DDR2
WD Scorpio Blue 500GB HDD
ATI HD3200 512MB
DVD burner with lightscribe.

gurusan · 11 May 2010 at 14:50

win7 would run great on there

Dicehunter · 11 May 2010 at 14:55

Thank you

SiriusB · 11 May 2010 at 15:14

I suggest 64 bit with 4GB RAM. 32-bit wont be able to use all of it.

booyaka · 11 May 2010 at 15:15

absolutely fine on that.

runs fine on my dad's P4 2.8ghz with 768mb ram!!

Mr-White · 11 May 2010 at 16:03

1GHz processor (32 or 64-bit)
1GB of main memory
16GB of available disk space
Support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for the Aero interface)

MW

theheyes · 11 May 2010 at 18:05

Wow, I was expecting someone to say they'd found an old P4 with 512 RAM.

gurusan · 11 May 2010 at 18:10

yeah me too. windows should fly on a dual core machine with 4gb ram!

bledd · 11 May 2010 at 18:23

I'd say a realistic minimum for a typical office / home media pc..

Dual core cpu
2gb ram

Reccomended
4gb ram

The most important thing, even for XP, is a fast hard drive

racerboy59 · 11 May 2010 at 18:27

I've got 7 running on an old dell inspiron 1300. I think it has a celeron 1.6 processor, 2gb ram, integrated graphics, old 5400rpm hd. To be honest its just as fast as XP but with (most) Windows 7 eye candy.

Mobius 1 · 11 May 2010 at 18:42

my dad has win 7 ultimate running on his old pentium 4, 3ghz dell, with 2gb or ram for media center and it runs brilliantly.

Ben Cole · 11 May 2010 at 18:57

I'm running W7 now on an Asus eee901 (Atom). It runs the most of the eye candy too.

It also ran very nicely on the eee900 (900MHz Celeron M), but no real eye candy.