Subj : bad news for hdd?
To   : Jas Hud
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 01 2023 06:03:00

 JH> you can run windows 7 on 1gig of ram.

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 JH> i used to run win7 on a netbook that had 1 gig of ram.

Wasn't there a special downscaled version of Win7 for the  
netbook machines?

And from what I read about netbooks was that users quickly  
outgrew their limited usefulness and wanted more resources and  
more options instead. But at reduced ram like 1GB ram that was  
simply not possible.

I don't recall what bitversion (32/64) the Win7 I witnessed on  
2GB was, but certain things were simply horribly slow. Even  
deleting marked emails in Thunderbird took way too long before  
control was released to the user.  So, to operate a windowed  
environment at 2G or less? ..no thanks.

I think I'll give Win7/32 a try when I settle with replacing my  
240GB HDD with a 1TB SDD for starters.

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