minimum requirements

**lloydi** · 18th January 2009

Hi guys i could run vista on my machine but switched back to XP as it was a bit slow, what are the requirements of windows 7? is this as resource hungry as vista?

**Greyfox** · 18th January 2009

If you could run vista then you will be able to run windows 7. Alot of people even saying windows 7 is faster and less of a resource hog too so you should be alright.

**Possy_99** · 18th January 2009

there is quite a bit of info on win7, lots of talk about it at the moment, hell there's even a new section for it here on DF..

the answer is no, the beta version at least is nowhere near as resource hungry as vista.

**maltloaf** · 18th January 2009

it runs nicely on my old p4 desktop which is something vista never did. well worth an install

**lloydi** · 18th January 2009

cheers guys, will give it a go then

**danthescan** · 18th January 2009

Go for it, as its happy on an Athlon XP 2200 with a Gig of ram here.Ok i have a 256 Meg AGP card as well for Aero,and so far its faster than Vista was on this machine.

**DejaVu** · 18th January 2009

My PC used to run great with XP, OK with Vista.

But is like Lightening with Windows 7 Beta. It's my main OS now and I'm keeping it that way! Micorosft should speed up development on this and start raking in the profits from their new worthwhile OS!

**lithho** · 18th January 2009

windows 7 is great mate, if you could run any version of vista, you will be fine with 7, it flys

**koola2** · 18th January 2009

Shame I still only have 256mb of RAM on this PC

**SiE** · 18th January 2009

Just installed it on a Toshiba Netbook with 512 ram and it runs a treat. Very impressed!

**Richj** · 19th January 2009

Installed it on my laptop over the weekend and its running much much better than the Vista install that was on there before... Will be installing it on my AMD 3500 machine tonight hopefully it will work on here as well...

Very impressed with it... Much more so than with Vista which is a pig. Best thing was installalion... Didnt have to set anything up, it found the correct drivers for every bit of hardware! The Vista install took ages as I had to keep loading drivers

**SiE** · 19th January 2009

Im gonna have a go with the windows key and p functions tonight to see how it handles the second display with my tv at home. This really is a great step forward for MS. It runs great and the new features are genuinely advanced. When I first installed it I though it was just a quicker version of Vista but there is so much more to it. I love all the new incorporated shortcuts with the windows button.

**Nibb** · 19th January 2009

Originally Posted by SiE

Just installed it on a Toshiba Netbook with 512 ram and it runs a treat. Very impressed!

My Tosh lappy struggled with it with its original 512mb ram, I upgraded to 2gb and now it flies.

**SiE** · 19th January 2009

Originally Posted by Nibb

My Tosh lappy struggled with it with its original 512mb ram, I upgraded to 2gb and now it flies.

really, what else did you have running on it?

Is it the NB100?

**Nibb** · 19th January 2009

Originally Posted by SiE

really, what else did you have running on it?

Is it the NB100?

No Tecra A2.

**Possy_99** · 19th January 2009

I have b1 running in a virtual pc (virtualbox) and found that when set to 1gb memory there's wasn't much left over - and that was just sitting idle..

**maltloaf** · 19th January 2009

Originally Posted by Possy_99

I have b1 running in a virtual pc (virtualbox) and found that when set to 1gb memory there's wasn't much left over - and that was just sitting idle..

my real install sits at about 430MB useage when idle

**Possy_99** · 19th January 2009

Originally Posted by maltloaf

my real install sits at about 430MB useage when idle

any tweaking? themes off etc..?

..will have to get round to trying it in vmware, lol.

**maltloaf** · 19th January 2009

standard install, wlan connected nothing tweaked except the watermark removed and the send feedback link removed.

Am using a standard theme that was in the desktop settings