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Old 06-25-2009, 12:19 AM
Jason Dunn
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Default Windows 7 Running on Lean Hardware

http://www.pcworld.com/article/1669...00:b23492874:z0

"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."

While we know that Windows 7 is less memory-intensive than Windows Vista, this is a geeky experiment bordering on lunacy when you consider other users in the same forum as "hackerman1" are reporting install times of 17 hours on Pentium III-based systems and boot times of 17 minutes. Why do they do this? Because they can of course!

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