windows 7 runs on a pentium 2 [how low can you go?]
June 23rd, 2009 comments (12) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
Some expert computer technician crazy person has managed to get Windows 7 to run on a ridiculously underpowered Pentium II PC. Why? I say, why not?
Amazingly enough, PC enthusiast Hackerman1 got his old 266 MHz Pentium II machine loaded up with Windows 7 Ultimate. The machine has a paltry 96MB of RAM, and a lowly 4MB graphic card, and it still managed to work. He tried dialing it down all the way to 64MB, but eventually ran out of memory. Sure, the Windows Experience Index is only 1.0 on this system, but isn’t that what you’ve come to expect from Windows anyhow? At least with Windows 98 and Vista, that was the consensus.
Next up, Hackerman1 plans on dusting off his old 166MHz Pentium I machine and seeing if he can make the Windows 7 OS work on that one. However, I’m not easily impressed, so until he gets it running on an old IBM PCJr, I won’t be truly in awe.
[The Windows Club via Maximum PC]
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June 23rd, 2009 comments (12): stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
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Fake!
Install Win7 took 18 hours on 333mhz 128mb P3 pc. And first reboot took 17 mins.
Win7 can run on 266ghz + 96mb pc. But on 64mb pc, i got “memory error”
running windows 7 on a calculator. boot time is 2.75 weeks, internet doesn’t work
LOL at the computer name
I have windows 7 on a dead badger. Boots in about 5 yrs, 3 months, 2 days, and weak wifi signal.
Is this your computer?
http://technabob.com/blog/2007/04/12/nice-beaver-thanks-i-just-had-it-stuffed/
very interesting topic, because not everybody has a power PC.
hello my name is Ma Zhen i’m from China
the win7 run to the 64m RAM computer is fake
Using VMWARE Workstation, I installed W7 with 1 GB of RAM, and tried booting using several parameters
If it works (quite) well with 192 MB, it is veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy slowwwwwwwww using 152 MB of RAM ;>))
Running Windows 7 Ultimate on a ham and cheese sandwich. It takes 5 weeks to boot. Add some ketchup and mayo.. it takes 3.5 weeks boot up. Only gets 10mb ethernet connection.
Very good Hackerman. How many processes are running when the machine is booted up and logged on? I do this sort of thing all of the time and look at it as quite unremarkable. how about you? not remarkable right? Just something that must be done.