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Windows 7 - Official system requirements

Finally we have confirmation from Microsoft as to the official system requirements for Windows 7.
Written by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Senior Contributing Editor

Finally we have confirmation from Microsoft as to the official system requirements for Windows 7.

Here they are:

  • 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  • 1 GB of RAM (32-bit)/2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
  • 16 GB of available disk space (32-bit)/20 GB (64-bit)
  • DirectX 9 graphics device with Windows Display Driver Model 1.0 or higher driver

By today's hardware standards, these requirements are pretty tame.

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