[Razor VinT]

Here are the stats for all three operating systems (XP, Vista and Win7), with memory usage measured after all update operations had completed and the system had been idle for at least one hour:



Graph with the raw numbers normalized so that XP=100

Windows 7 uses less RAM and disk space than Vista

As you can see, on this low-resource configuration Windows 7 uses dramatically less RAM than Vista, and also has a smaller hard-disk footprint.

Source: Ed Bott

[Munkypoo7]

Wow, who would have thought?

/sarcasm

[PurplePeopleEater]

Munkypoo7, on Feb 8 2009, 04:03 PM, said:

Wow, who would have thought?

/sarcasm

me, windows 7 has the same requirments as xp, while vista had complaints about hardware limitations

[henrydtv]

who doesn't already know this?

[Abhi]

PurplePeopleEater, on Feb 9 2009, 03:31 AM, said:

me, windows 7 has the same requirments as xp, while vista had complaints about hardware limitations

No, Windows 7 has the same requirements as Windows Vista, but performs better on the same hardware, utilizing the hardware better.

[FalseAgent]

Abhi, on Feb 9 2009, 06:51 AM, said:

PurplePeopleEater, on Feb 9 2009, 03:31 AM, said:

me, windows 7 has the same requirments as xp, while vista had complaints about hardware limitations

No, Windows 7 has the same requirements as Windows Vista, but performs better on the same hardware, utilizing the hardware better.

nah, it utilizes the hardware pretty much the same way as vista. What Windows 7 does is to cut down on the bloat and focus on end-user experience (thus superbar, plus reduced mem and disk usage).

It's a slimmer OS, I guess.

This post has been edited by comedy_guy: 09 February 2009 - 09:27 AM

[Abhi]

comedy_guy, on Feb 9 2009, 02:35 PM, said:

Abhi, on Feb 9 2009, 06:51 AM, said:

PurplePeopleEater, on Feb 9 2009, 03:31 AM, said:

me, windows 7 has the same requirments as xp, while vista had complaints about hardware limitations

No, Windows 7 has the same requirements as Windows Vista, but performs better on the same hardware, utilizing the hardware better.

nah.... What Windows 7 does is to cut down on the bloat (thus reduced mem and disk usage).

Isn't reducing mem and disk usage better utilization of the hardware?

[FalseAgent]

Abhi, on Feb 9 2009, 09:34 AM, said:

comedy_guy, on Feb 9 2009, 02:35 PM, said:

Abhi, on Feb 9 2009, 06:51 AM, said:

PurplePeopleEater, on Feb 9 2009, 03:31 AM, said:

me, windows 7 has the same requirments as xp, while vista had complaints about hardware limitations

No, Windows 7 has the same requirements as Windows Vista, but performs better on the same hardware, utilizing the hardware better.

nah.... What Windows 7 does is to cut down on the bloat (thus reduced mem and disk usage).

Isn't reducing mem and disk usage better utilization of the hardware?

kinda. Don't you think it's more on the software side? just saying.

[Abhi]

comedy_guy, on Feb 9 2009, 03:21 PM, said:

Abhi, on Feb 9 2009, 09:34 AM, said:

comedy_guy, on Feb 9 2009, 02:35 PM, said:

Abhi, on Feb 9 2009, 06:51 AM, said:

PurplePeopleEater, on Feb 9 2009, 03:31 AM, said:

me, windows 7 has the same requirments as xp, while vista had complaints about hardware limitations

No, Windows 7 has the same requirements as Windows Vista, but performs better on the same hardware, utilizing the hardware better.

nah.... What Windows 7 does is to cut down on the bloat (thus reduced mem and disk usage).

Isn't reducing mem and disk usage better utilization of the hardware?

kinda. Don't you think it's more on the software side? just saying.

Isn't software made to run/(run on) a hardware? Isn't software altered according to hardware(we're talking about code here)? Obviously, code is altered in order to interact in a better way with the hardware.
Still, we can agree to disagree, if you wish.

[PRATOSH]

i think the requirememnts are the same for vista and windows 7.when i installed it i found the requirements nearly the same.moved to xp in 2 days.couldnt understand the net settings.

[AMIRZ]

Yeah PRATOSH i agree that with (nearly) same requirements obviously Windows 7 beta (latest build?) still outperforms Vista (SP1?) in this case. That's the point i like about it since i have the same experience. And i'm sure even the next version or RTM will do much better than it Amen! Seven Rocks!

[Edgar J.]

W7 is like a Lite version of Vista way better.

[sevenalive]

OMG NO WAY!! Let's compare 98SE and 2000. I bet 2000 will beat them both! We should all switch to Win2000 since it uses less resources.

/sarcasm

[Syzygy]

sevenalive, on Feb 11 2009, 02:45 PM, said:

OMG NO WAY!! Let's compare 98SE and 2000. I bet 2000 will beat them both! We should all switch to Win2000 since it uses less resources.

/sarcasm

I bet Win 2000 couldn't support our hardware

And yes, I do know its sarcasm. But it was really pointless.

[coldemone]

Some people have complaints about going to w7 =because of resources= to you know. i am one of them.

But come on, w7 runs like xp to my 440mb ram comp.