Windows 7 system requirements to determine

Windows 7 may have the requirements is not a secret. But now, we will be able to know exactly what the final retail version of the system requirements. Microsoft Windows 7 Beta in January when it is published to have a relatively low requirements. This RC has just released version for only a small difference.

Windows 7 Beta:

-1GHz frequency of 32bit or 64bit processor

-1GB of memory

-6GB of available hard disk space

- Support for DirectX9, has a 128MB memory graphics processing units (open the minimum requirements for Aero theme)

The official release of Windows 7 RC

-1GHz or higher frequency of 32bit or 64bit processor

-1GB of memory (32bit)/ 2GB of memory (64bit)

-16G available hard disk space (32bit) or 20GB of available hard disk space (64bit)

- Support for the use of DirectX9 and WDDM 1.0 or higher version of the driver

This is in January compared to the Windows 7 Beta, the only substantive change is the 64-bit has increased hardware requirements. But in fact, intend to use 64-bit Windows 7 users have complete more, such as 4GB of memory and so on.

Although this is only release candidate version of the requirements, but to ZDNet, Microsoft revealed that Windows 7 this is the “final requirements” In general different versions of the requirements may differ, such as Start Edition and Ultimate Edition. A spokesman for Microsoft said the apply to all versions of Windows 7.

If users want to use Windows 7 in XP mode, you need at least 2GB of memory. 15GB extra hard disk space, as well as support for virtualization of processor hardware.

Early test results by the same hardware environment; Windows 7’s performance is superior to Windows Vista.

“Has been a longtime does not appear to save more than the previous versions of the Windows hardware resources of the.” Microsoft Windows products Mike Nash, vice president, in a telephone conference.

Windows 7 is slightly lower in the system under the premise of the requirements to show a better performance, for next-generation operating system, this is a good trend.