windows 7 on netbook

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Was doing some research and found this...

Windows 7 is designed to be compatible with the same hardware, applications and device drivers as Windows Vista, Sinofsky was quoted as saying by our sister publication eWEEK.com. But, he added, the operating system has been slimmed down and now runs well on netbooks, using as little as 512KB of RAM.

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512k. Wow. :laugh:

Even though Windows 7 expires on August 1, I'm still gonna toss it on here and see how well it performs...

 

[Skitzer]

I think they meant 512MB of ram

 

[sportage]

I have it on a netbook. It works fine.
I have it on a HP desktop presario 2006 model with 512mb.
It runs well there too.
Strange how vista was such a memory hog, and so picky while
win7 seens to run on anything.
I just hope the final Win7 isnt bloated down to vista's level.

 

[alcoholbob]

Windows 7 writes to disc significantly more than Vista. My guess is your hard drive is taking one for the team.

 

[lxskllr]

A couple of people around here installed Vista on netbooks, and said it ran better than XP did. :shrugs: I have Ubuntu on mine.

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: Astrallite
Windows 7 writes to disc significantly more than Vista. My guess is your hard drive is taking one for the team.

Does it? There are a few things to consider such as debug logging during beta lifecycle. I found Vista was ok with disk use but you could improve it greatly by tuning things like indexing. To me, out of the box Windows 7 on the same hardware has similar if not less disk use than Vista did.

 

[tatteredpotato]

I want to put it on my Dell Mini, but I only have an 8gig SSD, which would pretty much have to go exclusively to the OS. Sure I have a 16 gig SD card, but installing to that can really screw with performance.

 

[tw1164]

I have it on my mini 9 and love it. I have 2gb of ram though.

 

[13Gigatons]

The newer builds expire in July 2010.