i am having a 3.2ghz intel p4 with ht. i have 1gb ram so should i install win7 on it. I will use it for surfing ,mail,some light games etc, word ,office etc.
Hv used win7 on 1.25 gb ram(1gb+256mb) and was very fast and zippy
any answers
i am having a 3.2ghz intel p4 with ht. i have 1gb ram so should i install win7 on it. I will use it for surfing ,mail,some light games etc, word ,office etc.
Hv used win7 on 1.25 gb ram(1gb+256mb) and was very fast and zippy
any answers
DO you have a graphics card? If no then you wont be able to use aero. And without aero win 7 and win xp is same (for general users). Btw your configuration is ok(just ok) to use win 7.
i hv graphic card but wont support aero
I have a similar configuration like you bala. I feel that Win 7 is very fast than XP... and I recommend you to upgrade
I say No...and if u then also install W7- don't use it for browsing..
I was running Win7 with 1gb RAM with no issues.
install the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor tool to check whether your system can handle Win7.
I've read of Win7 being run with even less RAM (as an experiment). Can't recall the URL though.
However, I do remember the key is turn off unnecessary services and a number of the new fancy, WOW gimmicks.
I did a test run with Win7 on 1.5 GB ==> very nice and very pretty.
BUT... you knew that was coming
Standard install, added Firefox... and 3 tabs in FF resulted in ~ 1 GB in use.
Not enough free RAM for my normal usage... back to XP and dreaming of a leet machine with 6 GB of DDR3
I also was thinking of installing windows 7 on my old xp but guess it's not a good idea after reading this thread.