how much RAM windows 7

[mirojr]

Hi,

 

How much ram is recommended by you guys for Windows 7 laptop

 

Ta

[somabc]

Absolute minimum of 1GB, 2-4GB is better

[kesomir]

Hi,

 

How much ram is recommended by you guys for Windows 7 laptop

 

Ta

 

2GB + should do it

[localzuk]

I have it running on a 1GB machine, but it only runs the media centre. For normal use I have a machine with 2GB+ on it and it works very well on that.

[truslack]

Runs fine on my old Pentium M 1.6 with 512mb of RAM, Aero turned off and no gadgets.

[LosOjos]

Runs fine on my old Pentium M 1.6 with 512mb of RAM, Aero turned off and no gadgets.

 

Aero's the biggest memory hog (that I'm aware of!) in Win7, I turn it off as a matter of course regardless of how much RAM I have

[StewartKnight]

you can never have enough ram.... well unless you're still on 32bit OS obviously!

[EvLPhenom]

1GB should do it but if you want it to run nicely 2+...personally i have 4GB.

[Dave84]

Out of interest here to the schools that have already deployed Windows 7. Do you have aero turned on? or do you use the basic theme, or the classic theme.

Just wondering what everyone uses.

 

 

Dave

[adampat84]

Memory is so cheap.. mine runs nicley on 4gb...

 

With office 2010 it's unstoppable..

 

 

[Dos_Box]

Got 6GB for W7 Ultimate, but still got a nagging feeling I should have more!

 

*everything turned up to 11.

[john]

Got 6GB for W7 Ultimate, but still got a nagging feeling I should have more!

 

*everything turned up to 11.

Your right Chris 8GB is where its at

[Dos_Box]

Got 6GB for W7 Ultimate, but still got a nagging feeling I should have more!

 

*everything turned up to 11.

 

Ooops, sorry, laptops wasn't it. I have 4GB in mine because it's so cheap and you can turn it up to 11!

[t_h]

Out of interest here to the schools that have already deployed Windows 7. Do you have aero turned on? or do you use the basic theme, or the classic theme.

Just wondering what everyone uses.

 

 

Dave

 

Aero on here. Baseline computers have 2GB of RAM and a "modern" processor. I used to have Windows classic throughout on XP and Vista but I personally feel enforcing the classic theme on Windows 7 is shooting yourself in the foot somewhat from the usability side of things. The computers are more than capable and it is time to move on.

 

Plus, when you're making such big changes to the network, anything that is considered "ooh, shiny" helps!

[PEO]

I have 8gb in my home pc

[robyholmes]

Doesn't Aero off load some of the graphics processing on to the GPU were as classic and basic leave it on the CPU. So it can be better on the RAM and GPU if you GPU can handle it? I might have made that up but I think its the case? Anyone going to back me up?

[Arthur]

Doesn't Aero off load some of the graphics processing on to the GPU were as classic and basic leave it on the CPU.

Correct. This is precisely why it should be enabled on any system capable of running Aero. This is especially important on netbooks because they typically have much slower processors. The less those poor Atom, Neo & Nano processors have to do the better.