Jason Dunn
06-25-2009, 12:19 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/article/166992/windows_7_hits_a_new_low.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a41:g4:r12:c0.000000:b23492874:z0' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/article/1669...00:b23492874:z0</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"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."</em></p><p>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!</p>