APC August 09: Windows 7 hardware guide

DanWarneAPC New user 32 posts Posted: 16/07/2009 10:07 AM	This month in APC magazine we bust the low-spec myths. Windows 7 is touted to run on lower-end hardware than Vista. But does it really? We find out the truth! Alot of people are already using Windows 7 as their OS. Are you? Did you find the system requirements better or worse than Vistas?
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petert Consultant training facilitator Advanced Forumologist 186 posts Posted: 16/07/2009 1:07 PM	I've not yet used W7; however, the article left me disappointed. Most articles tout W7 as "Vista as it should have been", but the APC article would seem to debunk that idea in respect of hardware requirements. W7 may be better as an OS than Vista, but in terms of hardware requirement, is there really any difference? If not, then MS has again developed over-priced bloatware.
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BrownieBoy User 10 posts Posted: 20/07/2009 7:07 AM

For those that have not yet read it, the article says "there's good news and there's bad news". The bad news is that the 7's requirements are essentially the same as Vista's. The good news is that the general level of hardware available now is much better than it was at Vista's launch, so you're more likely to have access to a PC that can run 7 comfortably. You still need 2 Gig of RAM and a better than 1.6 GigHz processor. So, in other words, Microsoft has done what it's done for the last twenty years: released bloated, slow software and then tread water until the hardware caught up.

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