Windows 8 General Discussion

I'll try it on my old PC. It has an old Pentium in it I think

 

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Pentium 3 -> it will probably crash like my Athlon XP (no SSE2 instructions)
Pentium 4 -> it should be OK

 

Windows 7 beta was released early on Technet and MSDN.

 

Yeah Windows 7 Beta:
MSDN - January 7th
Public - January 10th so 3 days, there is still a chance.

 

i got an old PC too, i will install windows 8 beta on it, But that will only support windows xp sp2 programs.Windows 8 beta got windows xp sp2 compatibility mode for applications???, anyone can confirm? canouna please show some screenshots that will make me happy

 

Windows 7 had compatibility setting up to and including Windows 95. Windows 8 DP had also a profile for Windows 7. I don't see any reason why they would remove it in Beta build.

 

windows 8 beta can support low resolution 1024*768 , 1280*768 ..... or minimum resolution will be more than this It would be great if someone could post minimum requirements to run windows 8 beta, like disk space, processor, RAM, almost all hardware requirements

 

Apparently if you want to use all of Windows 8's features a resolution of 1366x768 is needed.

1024×768 is the minimum resolution for Metro applications to work.

Lower than 1024×768 should still work, but only support running desktop (non-Metro) applications.

Other requirements should be the same as W7.

 

Metro applications will work, but you won't be able to run 2 side-by-side with one in the "snap" mode.

 

Damn,so all netbooks are out of the minimum required spec.....
damned 1024x600

 

no my hp netbook has a resolution of 1366X768

 

I thought that I read somewhere that hardware requirements for W8 are same as W7...

 

Yea, they basically are the same.. Maybe even lower because of the memory improvements etc.

 

I thought I heard W8 required a higher version of ACPI and Hardware Virtualization or something, but I could be wrong

 

yes, they did.

 

Those are the official requirements, but I mean the actual minimum requirements. I might be able to run W8 on my 7 year old PC now (756 MB RAM, 1.66 GHz Pentium)

 

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