Could this laptop run windows 7

[andreweddy]

i have an old laptop i still use occasionly (more occasionly at the moment) and was just interested to know if it could run windows 7, or windows 7 starter edition

Specs are intel pent 4 2.4 ghz, 40 gig hdd, and 512mb ram

all help welcome

cheers

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver



I would say no

 

[ubercake]

Windows 7 recommended minimum RAM is 2GB. I run one PC with this minimum and it works just fine. I haven't tried with less.

40GB of hard drive space is barely enough for Windows 7 and drivers. Even though MS claims far less of a disk space requirement, if someone's using the PC that's not diligent about removing cab files resulting from updates, you'll be out of space in no time. You will also suffer a performance hit because you don't have much RAM and you'll have little swap space (virtual memory) for applications with higher system memory demands.

Could it run with those specs... probably, but you'll be better off keeping XP on a system like this or running some flavor of linux.

 

[andreweddy]

thanks, will try a linux install, always have wanted to try it

cheers and many thanks

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Ok good luck!

 

[edmond419]

You maybe able to install Windows 7 Home Basic on it but will run quite sluggishly and might even fry your hard drive because you have just 0.5GB of RAM

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Lack of drivers and 512 ram it would be real sluggish even with starter edition!