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Windows 7 installed on a Pentium II-based PC
Impressively, a member of the Windows Club forum who goes by the handle of “hackerman1” has gotten Windows 7 to boot on some pretty ancient machines. At the top of the configurations, he installed it on a system packing a 266MHz Pentium II, 128MB of RAM and a 4MB graphics card. After succeeding, he decreased the RAM capacity to 96MB, which also handled 7. His experiment came to a temporary halt after dropping the RAM to 64MB. Hackerman’s fun won’t end there, though. He plans to try and get Windows 7 up and running on a 166MHz Pentium I and 1MB graphics card next.
There is no mention of install or boot times for the Pentium II system, but other forum members have provided the information for a Pentium III PC. They say it took the antique system 17 hours to install Microsoft’s latest OS, and a patience-shattering 17 minutes to boot.
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Guest
on June 23, 2009 11:39 AM |
Interesting, but must have been slow I installed Windows Vista on a K6-2, 500Mhz with 256MB RAM, the boot took about 5 minutes, took hours to install, but until Vista worked more or less, of course, after I installed off a lot of services. |
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Technochicken
on June 23, 2009 12:02 PM |
Crap, Apple charges a premium because people don't buy ENOUGH of their overpriced machines? Watch out, under that theory Opera will start charging you for bandwidth that passes through their browser... don't tell them I said that. The difference is a Opera is open source. I'm pretty sure Apple is not... |
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SNGX1275
on June 23, 2009 2:43 PM |
Opera isn't open source. |
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Guest
on June 24, 2009 1:30 AM |
I still have a Thinkpad 300 with 160MB RAM and 20GB HDD. Maybe I will also try to install W7 if I can start the screen (that and it's batteries were the problems that made me stop using it). |
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Guest
on June 26, 2009 9:58 AM |
Haha thats great that it was installed on such an old machine, it's just the processor taking a while to process all the info, thats all. And for you Apple fanboys, why do you post here? why can't you post in the apple forums or something, jeez. I still have no reason to switch to an Apple Macintosh, which I know has great hardware, and warranty, don't get me wrong, but I just don't care for Macintosh Operating System X (yet) as I have been unable to use it enough to get into it. The only way i'd ever get into Macintosh OS would be to have it ported to common personal computers, rather than just Mac personal computer hardware. It isn't that I won't switch, I just don't want to pay a premium for the hardware, and the warranty or support, as I can fix my own computer just fine. That is why i'll stick with custom that I build myself, and run Windows and Linux on. |
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