sn00pie Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 You guys think it is a good idea to try and run it on a machine with 1.7ghz celeron, 256mb of ram, and 40gb hdd? Old computer that my parents use, thinking of throwing on W7 before the machine self-destructs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted July 8, 2009 Veteran Share Posted July 8, 2009 You guys think it is a good idea to try and run it on a machine with 1.7ghz celeron, 256mb of ram, and 40gb hdd?Old computer that my parents use, thinking of throwing on W7 before the machine self-destructs. I'd probably stick with XP on that machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xiphi Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 You guys think it is a good idea to try and run it on a machine with 1.7ghz celeron, 256mb of ram, and 40gb hdd?Old computer that my parents use, thinking of throwing on W7 before the machine self-destructs. Stick with XP, but give that thing some more ram even 256MB isn't enough for XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cuban Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Really? It's faster than XP by what measure?And memory is just as important, because 7 uses a fair chunk of it meaning there is less available for buffering and less available for application use before having to page out to disk. To illustrate this, on a system with 512MB here, XP is eating up 84MB, while 7 uses 250MB. We are not talking about being able to boot up 7 and stare at the desktop and maybe browse a folder, we are talking about an actual usable system. even if it is 10% slower then XP, whats the big ****ing point here? your comparing a ten year old product to one that's not on the shelf yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbfc_uk Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 It'll run fine, but no matter which OS you use, more RAM would be good. Thanks. Think i'll try 7 on it, but need some blank DVDs first. I've mentioned to my dad that he needs to double the memory for it to be really usable, but its an old laptop so memory is quite expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdood Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 even if it is 10% slower then XP, whats the big ****ing point here? your comparing a ten year old product to one that's not on the shelf yet... I'm not criticizing Windows 7's resource usage in any way whatsoever, so I'm not quite sure what your point is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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