Windows 7 hits a new low !!!

[raksrules]

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.

Source: Windows 7 Hits a New Low - PC World

 

[logistopath]

Thats cool..

 

[raksrules]

the best part is that my 10 year old machine will get new lease of life

Config:

266 Mhz processor (compass box size)

128 MB RAM

No Graphics card.

Currently running windows 98

 

[Techie#1]

i suppose it would then get instaleed on OLD rig,namely
AMD K6-2 550Mhz
128 mb ram
Onboard graphics(mayb 4mb too)
Yipee,if that's so, i would thanks MS a billion for such extreme scalability of 7!

 

[YoGi-Sama]

Wow... that's really... low.

But seriously, wow... P2 running Win7 is really great.

 

[sumant30]

Windows 7 is really kool.

 

[SidhuScorpion]

I hope it scales well w/ high end system. No1 wants to run Super Mario on 80k PC.

 

[Rahul++]

wow, it's great.. now the government office computer's can have a new interface

 

[mayanksahni]

I think people will stop selling there old rigs.

 

[ankitmane]

yeah...good tht i havent

ill try it on my p4 1.7 ghz setup

 

[vishalrao]

who wants to bet the article is MS sponsored/influenced in some way?

 

[MontionFTN]

I think that's a good news. I remember we managed to run cut down version of Vista on Pentium 3 433mhz, 64mb of ram

 

[Switch]

That's great news for MS, loads of peeps would look ahead to buy the OS if they dont have to sell their kidney's to upgrade their hardware.

 

[bluheart]

I read it recently on pcworld site.

Today i installed win 7 on piv 2.8 with 1gb ram

its rocking, i wil post the screen shots later

 

[Rockfella]

Nice.

Source: Windows 7 Hits a New Low - PC World

It will definitely scale. Few people buy 80k PC to run OS. Most of the high-end stuff out there is brag value

I hope it scales well w/ high end system. No1 wants to run Super Mario on 80k PC.

Nice.

I read it recently on pcworld site.

Today i installed win 7 on piv 2.8 with 1gb ram

its rocking, i wil post the screen shots later

 

[rapt0r]

Installed on a old system ? Great but what about usability, that article says boot time was 17 minutes and install time was around 17 hours . Are you really serious to use that machine ??

 

[Sei]

wow, it's great.. now the government office computer's can have a new interface

Most I've been to these days, including the electricity office where I pay my bill have Vista

 

[sato1986]

hmm.. imo u may be able to load windows 7 on your p3 or p4 systems... but practicality suggests using Windows XP or Windows ME instead.

 

[comp@ddict]

I saw, PC Dinosaur(code name) 96MB RAM cool. 17hrs install time and 17 minutes boot up time.

 

[piyush7243]

The Lower it gets The Better it is guys