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

"andy" · 24 Apr 2009 at 15:55

much better !

got a netbook today and put this straight on. the usual atom 1.6 and 2gb ram. actually seems to run faster and looks much nicer than the manufacturer bloated version of XP sp3 it had on this morning!

Wizzkidy · 24 Apr 2009 at 16:07

I'm running build 7100 now on my work laptop (1GB DDR2 / 2Ghz Duo) running sweet and its RAPID compared to my XP install before hand!

Haydz · 24 Apr 2009 at 18:26

Haydz said:
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.

/fail

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iCe-BLaZeD · 24 Apr 2009 at 22:52

holy crap guise 7100 (rc1) is good... try it out on ur lappys/netbooks and report in!

<3 it on my rig

malef!c · 24 Apr 2009 at 22:54

iCe-BLaZeD said:
holy crap guise 7100 (rc1) is good... try it out on ur lappys/netbooks and report in!

<3 it on my rig

I didn't think RC1 was out until May 5th??

Punt · 24 Apr 2009 at 22:58

I've just tried it on my old Dell Inspiron 9200, Pentium M 1.6GHz, 1GB Ram.

Ran much, much better than I expected. As good as, if not better than XP. Of course this is without anything else installed.

Unfortunately I could not get my wireless to connect to my network so I'm back on XP for now. If it wasn't for this I'd be happy to run Win7 on my old lappy!

mrk · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:01

RC upgraded from 7077 - awesome.

Happy · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:06

So... I'm hoping I can expect good things from upgrading Vista 64 to Win 7 RC 64

mrk · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:14

I'm just going to do a fresh install of Windows 7 RC tbh, or maybe I will try an upgrade first!

fail at the internets · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:17

Punt said:
I've just tried it on my old Dell Inspiron 9200, Pentium M 1.6GHz, 1GB Ram.

Ran much, much better than I expected. As good as, if not better than XP. Of course this is without anything else installed.

Unfortunately I could not get my wireless to connect to my network so I'm back on XP for now. If it wasn't for this I'd be happy to run Win7 on my old lappy!

Did you try using the vista drivers for it?

iCe-BLaZeD · 24 Apr 2009 at 23:50

mrk said:
I'm just going to do a fresh install of Windows 7 RC tbh, or maybe I will try an upgrade first!

i did an upgrade from a practically 1day old install of 7077 (was messing with offsets etc on my ssd) and it went smoothly dont even need to edit the ini file since 7077 upgrading is supported

ic1male · 25 Apr 2009 at 09:52

Does it make much difference using the 64-bit version over the 32-bit version? I can't tell if it's just going from Vista to 7 or 32-bit to 64-bit that makes things feel nippy.

iCe-BLaZeD · 25 Apr 2009 at 13:34

well i've always used 64bit since vista business 64... so i couldnt say though i always thought theres not much of a difference at all, windows 7 is a lot snappier in my experience jumping from vista64 to the 7 beta's 64bit..

baz047 · 26 Apr 2009 at 00:18

I run it on my laptop too, crap video card and a mobile core-duo.

I read an article though that says the current beta versions (although called Ultimate) re the stripped down versions and not the full product...so who knows what the final full release will need.

ic1male · 26 Apr 2009 at 10:59

I doubt it would be a stripped down version - how else are they going to test the product if they leave bits out?

iCe-BLaZeD · 26 Apr 2009 at 16:34

no its not a stripped down version afaik... they have a couple/few features they still need to implement/announce though

masterluke · 26 Apr 2009 at 16:45

im pretty sure RC's are supposed to be feature complete. They are certainly not "stripped-down" copies (aside from the evaluation period restriction).