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Re: Installing Windows 7 on our Driver Netbook

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Originally Posted by ALTrammell818 View Post
I wouldn't do it.

Windows 7 32 bit requirements
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Windows XP 32 bit requirements
300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended;
233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system)
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*


Now I don't know about you guys but I'd like to have that extra performance just in case. I however do not know the classmate specs off of the top of my head. Anywho I know it uses and Intel ATOM processor and I would not trust running Windows 7 with an ATOM.
My personal netbook uses a Atom Processor and Windows 7 works just fine on it.

One thing i would recomend is (Something that's most likely against the rules) to upgrade the RAM. most likely the Classmate PC has 512MB - 1GB of RAM. I would look into upgrading that to 2GB (most netbooks can't go any higher than that) and then go ahead and install 7

just my $0.02
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