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From: Christopher Muto on 1 Aug 2010 08:41 buddy b wrote: > Had Vista but XP Pro was installed. > Now I`m thinking of installing W7. > I have yet to run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor > soon but the answer maybe known by one of you. > > 2GB Ram. > Regards > buddy b if it runs vista then it will run windows 7 (and it will be more stable).
From: Mark Opolo on 2 Aug 2010 00:51 "Christopher Muto" <muto(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:5rydnRyjxdIP9sjRnZ2dnUVZ_o6dnZ2d(a)speakeasy.net... > buddy b wrote: >> Had Vista but XP Pro was installed. >> Now I`m thinking of installing W7. >> I have yet to run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor >> soon but the answer maybe known by one of you. >> >> 2GB Ram. >> Regards buddy b > > if it runs vista then it will run windows 7 (and it will be more stable). but then again some of us have never found Vista unstable.
From: Some One on 2 Aug 2010 23:11 On or about 8/1/2010 6:00 AM, it came to pass that buddy b wrote: > Had Vista but XP Pro was installed. > Now I`m thinking of installing W7. > I have yet to run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor > soon but the answer maybe known by one of you. > > 2GB Ram. > Regards > buddy b Works fine on my Dell E1505 that is essentially a clone of the Dell 6400. I did an update from Vista to Win 7 and it's been working without issue here since November 2009.
From: Rick on 3 Aug 2010 09:36 Windows 7 Professional will run on an ASUS 1000H Netbook with a single core processor and 1 GB of memory. "Some One" <someone(a)notyahoo.net> wrote in message news:i381da$v2m$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > On or about 8/1/2010 6:00 AM, it came to pass that buddy b wrote: >> Had Vista but XP Pro was installed. >> Now I`m thinking of installing W7. >> I have yet to run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor >> soon but the answer maybe known by one of you. >> >> 2GB Ram. >> Regards >> buddy b > Works fine on my Dell E1505 that is essentially a clone of the Dell 6400. > I did an update from Vista to Win 7 and it's been working without issue > here since November 2009. >
From: BillW50 on 3 Aug 2010 15:15
On 8/3/2010 8:36 AM, Rick wrote: > Windows 7 Professional will run on an ASUS 1000H Netbook with a single core > processor and 1 GB of memory. There is a big difference between running and crawling! I ran Windows 7 Ultimate RC on three machines: 1) Gateway MX6124 1.5GHz Celeron with 2GB of RAM 2) Gateway M465 1.7GHz Celeron with 2GB of RAM 3) Asus 702 900MHz Celeron fitted with a 16GB SSD with 2GB of RAM. The first two runs Windows XP with the CPU at 3% idle and a CPU temp of 132�F. Under Windows 7, CPU idle jumps to 23% and the temp increases 20�F. The Asus runs Windows XP at 5% idle and the CPU temp at 132�F. Under Windows 7 the CPU idle jumps to a whopping 50% and the CPU temp increases 10�F. These notebooks don't increase heat so much due to the keyboard is also being used as a huge heatsink. And all three uses the drive far more than Windows XP does. And anything that needs lots of CPU power was always slower under Windows 7 on the same machine. Which makes sense since Windows 7 is using much more CPU power for itself. You can also see this under the minimum requirements for CPU intensive games like The Sims as well. As you need more memory and a faster CPU if the game is running under Windows 7 vs. Windows XP. So all of this should be a no brainier to be honest. And the Asus EeePC 702 was totally unusable IMHO. It worked, but it was just so dang slow! And I am sure that cheap 16GB MLC SSD I popped in there doesn't help matters either. As those are really slow when it comes to writing. And it appears Windows 7 does seem to write a lot more than Windows XP does. And to be honest the two Gateway machines ran Windows 7 fairly well as long as the CPU wasn't in heavy use. Couple this with the fact that XP runs 100% of what I want to run while Windows 7 only runs about 95% of what I want to run. So I didn't see the need for Windows 7 at all and I removed them on all of my machines back in May. -- Bill Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 1 of 3 - Windows XP SP2 |