Nope it can run fine on a 512mb laptop so Id say Microsoft will say 512MB min and 1.5GB recommended.
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well I run on 4gb of ram and I think that is just about right. I see computers running vista on less and it just doesn't seem enough. 4GB doesn't cost much these days, infact it really should be the norm.
You may be able to run in on 512mb with a large paging file instead but you won't be able to run other programs such as photoshop very well.
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7000 is most likely going to be the beta. You fail to understand how business works, let me explain in a simpler way so that even you know what I'm talking about.
Microsoft employee 1: So we get most of our sales off Windows?
Microsoft employee 2: YAH.
Microsoft employee 1: We need to think of ways to sell more copy's of windows, because that means we will make more money.
Microsoft employee 2: I have an idea, people are starting to buy netbooks so we should make a version of windows that runs on netbooks.
Microsoft employee 1: *** is a netbook?
Microsoft employee 2: Its like a laptop but it has less ram, crap graphics and a smaller screen.
Microsoft employee 1: But doesn't vista run on netbooks?
Microsoft employee 2: NAH.
Microsoft employee 1: So unless we want to lose out on sales we need to make an OS that will run on 1GB of ram?
Microsoft employee 2: YAH.
1 YEAR LATER
Microsoft employee 2: Okay, we have made Windows 7 and it can run on a 1GB netbook
What do you think happens next? is it..
Microsoft employee 1: I know lets make it use 3.5GB of ram for fun lol
Microsoft employee 2: k lol
or
Microsoft employee 1: Lets replace the start bar with a super bar.
To anyone else viewing the thread, Sorry to explain it in a really dumb way.