It wont matter if you dual-boot.

My fresh install of XP SP3 uses 300 MB of ram. My fresh install of 7 uses 350 MB of ram. How am I blatantly overstating or understating anything?

Considering I have experience with XP, I've gotten XP down to around 170 MB, but I'm fairly certain I could get 7 down to 250.

Yes, and yes you can also delete the 3d interface files if you wanted to make more space on your HDD. BUT. That would really eliminate the point of having a W7 at all, now wouldn't it?
I see no reason to complain against new and better interfaces, which inevitably use more space and memory- but in exchange give better experience. If you do not like, just stick with XP.
I really don't see any logic behind your 'attempt at complaints'- other than the fact that you're TRYING to complain about it.

I will be getting Window 7, but first I am going to end up blowing my next paycheck on a new tower.

It has been five years for me with no updates besides the SP2 and SP3. It is time to upgrade.

Save your money-go buy a steak. Much better investment.

I have no idea what kind of XP you're installing, because I do fresh installs of XP at least 2 or three times a week, and they never take over 256 MB of RAM initially, this is including AVG Free.

.. you freshly install XP on your comp every 3 or 4 days? Man, and you thought vista was bad.

he has a job building computers.

I suppose I should check first, so scratch my 170 MB, it's really ~90 MB. Even so, 256 MB vs 350 MB isn't bad at all, especially considering dx10 and various other upgrades.


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I work in a computer refurbishing center, and we generally use whatever there's a CD key for, which tends to be XP.




Admittedly, it's not bad, and I think that it's a completely acceptable loss, and I definitely overshot Win7's memory usage, just assumed the minimum requirements were about what it uses, the only reason I'm making a fuss about this is because it's one of the few things I can complain about with Windows 7, and of course, the better it gets, obviously it's going to take more memory.

@Falk

I ran 7 build 7000 just fine on 512mb of RAM, with eyecandy maxed, and I could still run Photoshop, Firefox, and MSN.

Yeah, with a large pagefile, meaning much slower memory processing.

Did you know... that 512 MB ram is actually more expensive than a 2GB ram?

no it isn't

Do you mean per MB, or are you just being silly?

it was never cheaper to buy 4 sticks of ram than 1 stick of ram. BeDazed just doesn't know what he's talking about.

Yeah, but he could be saying that if you buy 1 2 gig stick it's cheaper than getting 1 512 stick, which obviously isn't true, unless he's saying per MB.

It was fast enough that I used it, so it doesn't matter.

Weird. No-one seems to care about Win7. No new threads, no new posts in this thread, nothing. Microsoft's in trouble.

it's old news.. I've been running it for a few weeks now, and I was late to get it.

I got it yesterday and love it so far. I'm coming from XP, though, so reinstalling everything has been a huge pain in the ass so far.