Windows 7 RC Is Ready For Download
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True to its word, Microsoft made available the RC build of Windows 7 today. Downloads were available to MSDN, TechNet & Connect sites. As I write this, I’m downloading what it calls the ‘base package,’ which includes both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7. Since I have a 64 bit processor on my test box, this most likely is where I will start.
Microsoft has also released the minimum requirements to run Windows 7. As usual, the requirements are unrealistic and extremely downgraded. Here they are:
- 1 GHz 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
I think 3 GB of RAM for the 32 bit and 4GB for the 64 bit is needed for good performance, plus a dual core processor. Just my 2 cents.
I’ll do the install over this weekend and report back next week what I find.
The public release is coming on May 5, 2009 so stay tuned for your own copy.
Comments welcome.
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Ryan Farmer
April 30th, 2009
at 12:51pm
What’s sad is that Microsoft is the only OS vendor left that’s pushing an OS for overglorified 386’s (x86).
Will it take them as long to push 64-bit operating systems to mainstream as it did for 32-bit?
I’d really hate to use Vista or 7 on any processor that’s so old it can’t even do X86-64.
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To be honest, 7 requires less system them Vista, and Vista Basic can work smoothly on 1 gig of ram and a single core - if used how it was designed.
Now if you consider how you describe yourself, and probably most of us reading, it is not sufficient.
I would like to see what window’s 7 can do, Let us know!
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