Windows 7 - Home Basic uses less ram than ultimate?

Is it true HomeBasic uses like 200mb and Ultimate like 500 mb?

I have only 1gb of ram but I don't want to go back to XP

There is a difference but Ultimate will run under 1 gig I did just that for 5 months. The amount of ram usage depends on what services you run in both but I suspect the difference is maybe 100 Mb if that.


Ken J

Update you ram by adding more. Using home basic is no different then using XP. Ram is fairly cheap now days.

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No, it is not true. Home Basic would actually be worse because it does not have Aero.

Run this and find out what will work and what up grades you may need.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...pgrade-advisor