2014-04-15, 01:43 PM
Desk Wrote:I would slightly disagree with Zelkova in terms of Win7 RAM usage, since from personal experience, a clean installed Win7 would use about 300 MB of my old desktop with 1 GB RAM. I'm sure that number can be decreased with a bunch of safe tweaks to the system, which leaves about 70% or more RAM for whatever you need to run. Although that percentage may vary a bit due to some hardware discrepancies, I'd say that's pretty great for an old computer!
Oh no I agree. When Windows 7 came out I saw people running 7 on machines with Pentium 2 processors and 128mb of RAM (or something similar). I completely agree that he could install W7 no problem on this machine, I was just afraid that he would have to get used to the increased OS RAM consumption when compared to XP. It could be enough that he may not be able to, for example, run Skype and play MS at the same time.