Windows 7 Beats Snow Leopard On Older Hardware Support
Got a four-year-old Mac? Forget the newest version of OS X; Apple's Snow Leopard will only be supported on Intel CPUs. Got a PC from 2001? Windows 7 just might run on it. I tested a below-spec PC with the latest version of Windows and saw surprising results.
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Windows 7 Beats Snow Leopard On Older Hardware Support
I have a 1 year old computer with an ARM chip in it and I can't get Windows 7 to run on it? Windows 7 must really be junk if I can't get it to run on a microprocessor it was never designed for.Can you say fanboy troll ? I knew you could.
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I don't think I would go quite are far back as you did it is really asking too muchMy results on crappy hardware ate these on a 5 year old laptop with a crappy intel onboard graphics and a celeron(M) 1.4 after digging out a more or less compatible vista driver for the graphics it runs really well
On a socket a 1.5 (ish) desktop it run well also after upping the memory to 1gb
makes me wonder why this was not done 2.5 years ago with vista.
Windows 7 is everything vista should have been plus extras