Windows 7 Spec - How low can you go? :P

When it hits RC, I'll bung it on my EeePC netbook. I put another GB of memory in it, so should run quite well (2GB, Intel Atom 1.6, SSD).
 
Runs like a champ on my Acer One (1.6Ghz Atom with 1.5GB memory)

Build 7000 was a tad slower than XP for me, so I went back to XP but I've recently fresh installed 7077 and it's much nippier than 7000.

I dont know how much lower you could go, I think memory would still an issue. 512MB maybe a push but it all depends on the person and their definition of fast.
 
sure i heard somewhere that theres going to be a version of 7 thats optimised/aimed at the low spec netbooks and the like ?

worst ive ran it on was a 1.6 laptop with 1gb ram and it ran quite nice. upgrading to 3gb made it a lot better though
 
Well I have it installed on a Dell Celeron PC which is sub 1.6GHz with 768MB ram, It runs just fine with Aero.

My NC10 netbook runs it as fast as you'd expect a full on desktop to run an OS.
 
All these "netbooks" have the integrated Intel GPU. Are the graphical Aero items enabled on these netbooks? I find it very hard to believe that GPU could perform as fast as desktops, as people are mentioning. I can only thin the fancy graphical stuff (Start + Tab Aero preview etc) is all turned off?

I have a dell mini 9 with 1Gb of RAM I may consider installing on, but am not sure if all these people with Acer's and NC10s (same hardware as my dell mini) may be exaggerating the performance somewhat in comparing it to XP etc.


rp2000
 
rp2000 said:
All these "netbooks" have the integrated Intel GPU. Are the graphical Aero items enabled on these netbooks? I find it very hard to believe that GPU could perform as fast as desktops, as people are mentioning. I can only thin the fancy graphical stuff (Start + Tab Aero preview etc) is all turned off?

I have a dell mini 9 with 1Gb of RAM I may consider installing on, but am not sure if all these people with Acer's and NC10s (same hardware as my dell mini) may be exaggerating the performance somewhat in comparing it to XP etc.


rp2000
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My laptop has an intel integrated GPU (although it is in a Dell XPS) and it runs aero perfectly well with vista so I can't see why it wouldn't do the same with 7.
 
rp2000 said:
All these "netbooks" have the integrated Intel GPU. Are the graphical Aero items enabled on these netbooks? I find it very hard to believe that GPU could perform as fast as desktops, as people are mentioning. I can only thin the fancy graphical stuff (Start + Tab Aero preview etc) is all turned off?

I have a dell mini 9 with 1Gb of RAM I may consider installing on, but am not sure if all these people with Acer's and NC10s (same hardware as my dell mini) may be exaggerating the performance somewhat in comparing it to XP etc.


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aero all enabled, all task run smoothly with the eye candy and it feels faster then XP especially when launching apps like office 2007,web express,photoshop cs4 etc
 
See my youtube vids basically, it shows the Intel IGP performing famously in Win7 Aero!
 
mrk said:
See my youtube vids basically, it shows the Intel IGP performing famously in Win7 Aero!
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Where are the links? ( I scanned the thread and could not see any).

Might give it a bash tonight. My Dell only has an 8GB SSD with XP on it atm, so I will ghost that to a bootable USB flash drive, as a backup.

I have build 7068 64 bit on one of my desktop systems, what is the latest 32 bit version for my netbook (I am assuming people are installing 32 bit on these netbooks? (Unsure if the 1.6 Atom CPU and/or chipset is 64bit and whether it would even make a difference on a 1GB RAM machine)


rp2000
 
rp2000 said:
Where are the links? ( I scanned the thread and could not see any).

Might give it a bash tonight. My Dell only has an 8GB SSD with XP on it atm, so I will ghost that to a bootable USB flash drive, as a backup.

I have build 7068 64 bit on one of my desktop systems, what is the latest 32 bit version for my netbook (I am assuming people are installing 32 bit on these netbooks? (Unsure if the 1.6 Atom CPU and/or chipset is 64bit and whether it would even make a difference on a 1GB RAM machine)


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unfortunately i believe u may need 16GB free space before it allows u to install it, not entirely sure on that but remember it bugging me about freeing up some space before
 
iCe-BLaZeD said:
unfortunately i believe u may need 16GB free space before it allows u to install it, not entirely sure on that but remember it bugging me about freeing up some space before
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That is Pants, Man :(

Just checked my bog standard 64 bit install on my desktop and that took 12Gb of space (I did a default install of 7068). Reducing Pagefile to 1GB and removing Hibernation using google saved me a couple of gig.

Anyone know how you would go about stripping crap out of it (I am fairly certain there is not 10GB of useful stuff in the default install :)

More an XP man myself, so know what to zap in XP to get it down to under 1GB and you can find tools to do it through GUIs like XPLite. Anything similar for Windows 7 or can I remove "junk" during the install or will it be a flat out Windows 7 does a HDD check and will not install onto 8GB drives?


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installation through USB... apparently its really quick but how much quicker are we talking? worth going through the trouble of formatting 4gb stick, putting on there for one install or?
 
I am going to try the RC build on my Nan's laptop which is some HP Celery thing with 512MB RAM. Should be interesting... :D
 
Im going to try and run it on my poor 5 year old compaq laptop:

Pentium M, 1.696ghz processor and glorious ddr2 512mb ram.

Will report back with results.
 
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