Windows 7 could follow Vista to an early grave

Re:Windows 7 could follow Vista to an early grave by mikeyur on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @12:38AM (#561017)

I'm running Win7 on the low-spec'd 'home' computer that the rest of the family uses - 1.8ghz Sempron, 1GB ram - and it works surprisingly well.

I think it's got the best of Vista and XP and less of the garbage we hate. I think it will be successful if Microsoft can pull off a good marketing campaign. The difference between IT departments upgrading to Vista or upgrading to Windows 7 is that Win7 will actually run fairly well on their old hardware.

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Re:Windows 7 could follow Vista to an early grave by omouse on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @12:54AM (#561025)

How many GBs does the install of Windows 7 take up?

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Re:Windows 7 could follow Vista to an early grave by ben_straub on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @11:33AM (#561629)

Looks like around 5: http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2009/03/17/windows-7-clean-i...

7 scales down like Vista never did. I installed the beta on a 4-year-old TabletPC with .5GB RAM, and it runs as well as XP ever did. I'll probably upgrade my dev workstation when the RC is released.

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Re:Windows 7 could follow Vista to an early grave by mikeyur on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @03:31AM (#561143)

I think it uses about 5GB or so - that's my guestimate, I didn't pay attention when I installed last time.

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