After takin' a swig o' grog, Terry Porter belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> However, from past experience knowing that whatever "minimum specs"
> Microsoft states for an operating systems needs to be substantially
> boosted - doubled in the case of memory - what are we to make of the
> minimum specs below?
>
> * 1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
> * 1 GB of RAM (32-bit)/2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
> * 16 GB of available disk space (32-bit)/20 GB (64-bit)
> * DirectX 9 graphics device with Windows Display Driver Model 1.0 or higher
> driver
My XO runs Linux decently with 256 Mb of RAM and a 1 Gb SSD.
'nuff said.
> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24773/1023/
>
> Furthermore, everyone and their dogs know that if you tried to run Vista on
> a computer with the above specs you would probably take a hammer to the
> device in frustration. Will the same be true of Windows 7?
With Windows 7, Microsoft has chosen to leave the coming sub-$200 market to
Linux.
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