Check this post out from the forum of thewindowsclub.com! Member, “hackerman1″ has run a few tests on a really old (and I mean REALLY old) system just to see if Windows 7 would run on it… and it looks like he was successful! Here are the specs of the machine he used for his tests.
CPU: 266MHz Pentium 2
RAM: 128MB, 96MB, and 64MB RAM (He lowered the RAM for each test)
GPU: 4MB
Apparently, only 2 of the 3 tests were successful: 128MB RAM and 96MB RAM. Below are screenshots of the System screen show such success:
128MB RAM on left, 96MB RAM on right; click for larger images.
From, “hackerman1,” “[o]n my third test with 64 MB I got some error messages about “insufficient memory”, then it rebooted…”
Naturally, the aforementioned is merely a novelty, as I doubt anyone on this planet plans on running Windows 7 on such an old machine… but stranger things have happened, I suppose. Last of note is his mention of performing the Windows 7 test on a 166MHz Pentium 1 system that sports an amazingly-amazing Aero-worthy (not) 1MB GPU! Stay tuned to thewindowsclub’s forum for more on that, if interested.
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