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| From | BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.laptops |
| Subject | Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? |
| Date | 2011-07-10 12:14 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ivcml7$abs$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <X5idnekgKtTxZYXTnZ2dnUVZ5rGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <ivb2nu$gmd$1@dont-email.me> |
On 7/9/2011 9:28 PM, Pen wrote:
> On 7/9/2011 8:55 PM, ghelf wrote:
>> The original machine came with XP professional installed.
>> The hard drive crashed and I have no recovery disks. I've
>> got the new HD installed and I'm thinking, instead of buying
>> and installing XP professional, maybe I should just go with
>> Window 7. Is this a bad idea? The laptop is a HP/Compaq 6501b.
>
> That processor is about the minimum for win7 for basic
> tasks. However, you should ump up the RAM to at least 3GB
> since it doesn't have discrete graphics.
Both Ryan P. and myself are running Windows 7 with only 1.5GB of RAM.
Have you actually checked your memory use under Windows 7? As this one
right now is using 798MB of the 1.5GB. And I have never seen it use over
1GB yet. And I monitor it with a widget constantly.
Most of my Windows XP machines are running 2GB. And memory use on them
is the same as Windows 7 here. Rarely do I use more than 1GB under XP
unless I am running some GB mega 3D game or something. Even still I
haven't seen any of my XP machines ever hit 1.5GB or higher in use yet.
--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v3.0
Centrino Core2 Duo 2GHz - 1.5GB - Windows 7
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Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-07-09 17:55 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? Pen <nospam@spam.none> - 2011-07-09 22:28 -0400
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-07-09 21:27 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-10 12:14 -0500
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-07-10 04:44 +0000
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-07-10 04:46 +0000
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-07-10 00:43 -0500
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 00:22 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 05:09 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-07-10 17:39 -0500
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 23:15 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? "Ryan P." <rdeleteyannewguy@gremovemail.com> - 2011-07-11 12:45 -0500
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-07-11 21:01 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 23:57 -0300
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-07-10 22:18 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 23:49 -0700
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