How well Windows 7 running on 1 GB RAM ?

[ARG]

so , how well windows 7 running on 1 gb ram laptop / rig ?
anyone has an experience on it ?

 

[yowanvista]

It won't run correctly, most apps will lag a lot and the system will be unresponsive

 

[Bill2]

It'll run slow. The absolute minimum recommended memory for win7 is 1 gb. Right now, on the machine I'm typing on, i have hardly any apps open and about 1.25 gb ram is being consumed. If you plan to run memory intensive apps or a lot of apps at the same time, invest in more ram or a better rig.

 

[whs]

It runs OK, especially the 32bit version. It is not as fast as it can be, but it runs faster than e.g. Vista. 2GB of RAM is recommended. At todays prices of RAM sticks (cheap), I would upgrade. Scan your system from this website and you know what your options are. Installing RAM sticks on a laptop is really very easy.

 

[whs]

It'll run slow. The absolute minimum recommended memory for win7 is 1 gb. Right now, on the machine I'm typing on, i have hardly any apps open and about 1.25 gb ram is being consumed. If you plan to run memory intensive apps or a lot of apps at the same time, invest in more ram or a better rig.

I have observed that the RAM usage is a function of the available RAM. In a 1GB system, the usage would be in the 600 to 700MBs. But then, of course, you get more paging activity which slows the system down.

 

[DeaconFrost]

It will run well enough to use for the basics, like web-browsing and e-mail. It won't leave much headroom for anything else, like gaming, photo-editing, etc.

 

[pparks1]

Since it's the minimum requirement, expect minimal performance.

 

[ARG]

thanks for the advice guys ! i think i will upgrade the ram on my netbook

 

[logicearth]

Seeing as my netbook is just that, all it does is browse the web, watch a few youtube videos (480 is the max), answer emails and IMs... 1 GB is more then enough. What really is slowing down the netbook is not the RAM but the processor. And who would do gaming (other then super simple games, of course) on a netbook?

 

[ARG]

Seeing as my netbook is just that, all it does is browse the web, watch a few youtube videos (480 is the max), answer emails and IMs... 1 GB is more then enough. What really is slowing down the netbook is not the RAM but the processor.

yepp , i think so.
do you turn on all of the windows 7 features ? ( like aero for example )

 

[EzioAuditore]

It'll run slow. The absolute minimum recommended memory for win7 is 1 gb. Right now, on the machine I'm typing on, i have hardly any apps open and about 1.25 gb ram is being consumed. If you plan to run memory intensive apps or a lot of apps at the same time, invest in more ram or a better rig.

I have observed that the RAM usage is a function of the available RAM. In a 1GB system, the usage would be in the 600 to 700MBs. But then, of course, you get more paging activity which slows the system down.

I do agree. In my virtual machine, I allocated 512MB ram to windows 7. It uses around 51% of it when in idle. But atleast, it runs.

Doesn't lag much, it's usable atleast. So, u can try it on 1GB ram but just for casual browsing, song, may be office work too but as the number of windows increases in your tasklbar, so decreases the performance and lag-ness increases. Gaming would be nearly impossible, even light windowes games like Pocket tanks will bog it down.

 

[wds7]

It will run well enough to use for the basics, like web-browsing and e-mail. It won't leave much headroom for anything else, like gaming, photo-editing, etc.

+1 ...Yup ...will be OK for 32Bit.V ...
I run wds7 on 1 desktop ..Pentium D +1GB ram and 1 on laptop ..Celeron +1.5GB ..
They both run pretty well .

 

[ARG]

It'll run slow. The absolute minimum recommended memory for win7 is 1 gb. Right now, on the machine I'm typing on, i have hardly any apps open and about 1.25 gb ram is being consumed. If you plan to run memory intensive apps or a lot of apps at the same time, invest in more ram or a better rig.

I have observed that the RAM usage is a function of the available RAM. In a 1GB system, the usage would be in the 600 to 700MBs. But then, of course, you get more paging activity which slows the system down.

I do agree. In my virtual machine, I allocated 512MB ram to windows 7. It uses around 51% of it when in idle. But atleast, it runs.

Doesn't lag much, it's usable atleast. So, u can try it on 1GB ram but just for casual browsing, song, may be office work too but as the number of windows increases in your tasklbar, so decreases the performance and lag-ness increases. Gaming would be nearly impossible, even light windowes games like Pocket tanks will bog it down.

yap , i believe it's still usable at 1 GB ram.
and yeah , for games , just forget about it

It will run well enough to use for the basics, like web-browsing and e-mail. It won't leave much headroom for anything else, like gaming, photo-editing, etc.

+1 ...Yup ...will be OK for 32Bit.V ...
I run wds7 on 1 desktop ..Pentium D +1GB ram and 1 on laptop ..Celeron +1.5GB ..
They both run pretty well .

 

[Darician]

I use my work machine with Windows 7 32-bit and 1 GB of RAM with a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz (HT) machine. I have a Radeon HD 4650 in it and with that, it runs decently. With my dual-monitor setup, I've been able to run some older games, can play any HD video thanks to the GPU Acceleration, can run a couple tabs in Firefox and Chrome all with Aero enabled. Said monitors are 17 inch monitors running at 1152 x 864 resolution each. Although some of my colleagues use bigger screens and the machines run decently.

Unlike when Vista was installed on this machine, Windows 7 runs just fine and almost like XP did on it. As far as RAM consumption, Windows will eat almost as much as you can throw at it. The more RAM, the more it eats although there is a cap but you should be fine at 1 GB. 2 GB is far more recommended but you can live with 1 GB if you absolutely have to make do with it, even 1.5 GB.

 

[logicearth]

yepp , i think so.
do you turn on all of the windows 7 features ? ( like aero for example )

Of course! Aero is what you want enabled. Aero will take some of the load off of the CPU by putting most of the UI work onto the GPU. The integrated Intel Graphics is more then enough power for Aero.

I'm also running Ultimate on my netbook, vanilla install all the way.

 

[PwnFrnzy]

My system is a 7 year old eMachines T2885, the motherboard has a maximum of 1GB RAM. I'm running the 32-bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate and it is faster than Vista in all areas and faster than XP when opening Windows, but slower than XP on startup/shutdown.
All I can say is that if you have at least 1GB RAM and 64MB of video memory, you will be just fine. But if you plan running 64-bit, I recommend having 2GB and a 64-bit Processor, I do plan however to use a formatted HDD to test a 64-bit version on this computer.
Oh, and my netbook is 1GB RAM too, so suck on that to whoever says you need more than 1GB to run 32-bit.

 

[computertech19]

As everyone else said, it will run really slow. I had a hard time running on my original 2GB of RAM. I also ordered my laptop with a 64 Bit OS which sucked the resources but have since put 4GB of RAM in my laptop. If your running a 32Bit Windows 7 I would put at least 2GB and if your running 64Bit I would put at least 3GB in it. But that's me.

 

[ARG]

About the memory consumption , on idle i got 600-700mb :sarc: ( maybe same with the others )
actually i wondering if 70% ++ on ram usage will have a negative impact to the system

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finally today i upgrade my netbook to 2 GB ram

 

[EzioAuditore]

70%+ on idle? I think, it'll. Removing gadgets, turning off aero, using a basic theme, using any light AV (or may be a cloud AV) may help reduce the ram usage.
Also, refrain from using firefox for browsing if you do, it consumes a lot of memory. Either use the portable version of it or switch to another browser.

 

[ARG]

thanks for the advice dude !