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    Thumbs up Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/16699...a_new_low.html
    I've always wanted to get a modern operating system to work on my graphing calculator. And we're about there, thanks to the efforts of a fellow (or strangly named lady) on The Windows Club forum. A user by the name of "hackerman1" has installed Windows 7 on his PC, which in itself is nothing to write home about. The catch here is that he's gotten a bootable, working installation on no less than a Pentium II system. No, that's not a typo--Pentium Two. The extreme...ly old machine consists of a 266 MHz CPU, a whopping 96 MB of memory, and a next-generation 4 MB graphics card.
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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    and i was scared my machine wasnt up to the task!

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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    much love to vlite

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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    Quote Originally Posted by idimmu View Post
    and i was scared my machine wasnt up to the task!
    I don't think it's too impressive that he's got it on, but more what it would be like to work with. Win7 is extremely flexible, but I can't imagine him having much fun doing even the most mundane of tasks.

    The P2 was a quite potent chip. My Celeron 300A quite happily ran XP, and we know Win7 can run on most XP-rated hardware quite happily thanks the netbook boom. It's the RAM that's the killer here, which is why I can see it running... but unbearably so.

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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    LOL quite a feat but begs the question "WHY?"
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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    Because he can comes to mind.

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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    lol i was questioning weather it could run on my mums celeron 2.26

    then i installed it and it worked fine

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    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    i wonder what the boot time is, and opening IE would take about an hour or more would it not ?

    still he proved it can be done lol

    That's not to say that he's planning on stopping for good, however. Next up? A Pentium I machine featuring a 166 MHz CPU paired with a 1 MB graphics card. After that, maybe hackerman1 can break inject some Aero graphics into his trusty abacus. Although he didn't say how long it took him to install or boot the operating system, other forum users have chimed in and timed the installation for a Pentium III-based system at a low 17 continuous hours. And the boot time? 17 minutes.

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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    As i've said many times before, it works very well on an eeePC 701 if you vlite it carefully, much snappier than XP, and Xandros: http://forums.hexus.net/1675120-post34.html
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    Phew, my pc should run win7 fine then.




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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    this is pretty cool imo..reminds me of a similar goal a few years back, when my friends and I decided to put Windows XP on a 486DX machine with 32mb ram..we got it up and running, was actually usable lol..

    Amazing thing is that was without xplite or similar (didn't exist at the time)..was a case of coaxing it on there and then manually removing bits and pieces post install..fun times!

    I might try to put 7 on my eeepc 900 now..if my SSD will be fast enough for it.
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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    Quote Originally Posted by Spud1 View Post
    this is pretty cool imo..reminds me of a similar goal a few years back, when my friends and I decided to put Windows XP on a 486DX machine with 32mb ram..we got it up and running, was actually usable lol..

    Amazing thing is that was without xplite or similar (didn't exist at the time)..was a case of coaxing it on their and then manually removing bits and pieces post install..fun times!

    I might try to put 7 on my eeepc 900 now..if my SSD will be fast enough for it.
    beats me i only got it installed on to a 266mhz socket a atholon thingy, cant remember what it was exaclybut i remember it had 128mb of ram and a cirrus logic video card.....tbh i still got that pc lieing around in the house somewhere
    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    interesting - got some old hardware lying around. Might have to give it a go... I've been running both Windows 2000 and Windows XP very successfully on low grade hardware at work (Celly / PIII era stuff). Might have to try Win 7 on my Pentium 166 with 64MB RAM now, just to see what happens

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    Re: Windows 7 - How low can you go?

    Quote Originally Posted by Spud1 View Post
    I might try to put 7 on my eeepc 900 now..if my SSD will be fast enough for it.
    For a bit of a laugh I installed 7 on an Acer Aspire One - the slowest SSD I've ever seen (we have EeePCs too, and trust me, the Aspire One's SSD is far, far slower). The Aspire One struggles to run XP at all, yet 7 was no worse. Not really usable, but then neither is XP.

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    Don't I know it, the SSDs used by the Aspire one are only fit for FreeDOS and *NIX terminals, and that's stretching things. It's unbelievably bad.
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