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Apple Snow Leopard: System Requirements

Aug 13

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“The world’s best Operating System” is the tagline of Apple’s new OS “Snow Leopard”. This is slated for launch in September 2009, almost a month before Microsoft’s Windows 7. But before you plan to move to this OS, please go through requirements for this to work on your machine.

General Requirements

  1. Intel processor based Mac Computer (Obviously)
  2. 1GB RAM
  3. 5GB of free Hard Disk space
  4. DVD drive for installation. External drive will work.

Feature Specific Requirements

1. Time Machine allows you to backup your data seamlessly. This requires an additional hard drive or a “Time Capsule“.

2. Photo Booth requires an iSight camera, USB Camera or Firewire DV Camcorder

3. Screen Sharing requires a 128KBPS Internet Connection

4. DVD Player requires 1.6Ghz or faster processor

5. 64 Bit Support requires a processor that supports 64 bits

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Automated System Recovery: Windows XP

Aug 13

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Automated System Recovery (ASR) feature in Windows XP allows users to create backups to be prepared for a complete system crash situation. This helps in rebuilding the system from a scratch.

Microsoft recommends users to create ASR disks regularly to be prepared in case the system fails. This is the last resort after Safe Mode and other troubleshooting steps have failed.

The ASR wizard backs up system state, system services and other components of the Operating System. The restoration through ASR can be accessed by tapping F2 key when prompted.

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Are you ready for Windows 7?

Aug 12

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It would be a simple question to answer if you are considering only Minimum system Requirements.

But you have ensure more comprehensive check of your system to ensure hassle free transition to Windows 7.

Following are few things you need to take care off before attempting upgrade/installation of Windows 7.

There are tools and scan utilities available which if you download and run on your machine will provide you with all the required information related to conflicting software, Drives etc.

Below are few tools which you can try:

1. Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor:

This tool generates a report which details out known compatibility issues. It will also give suggestions on how to take care of compatibility issues.

2. PC Pit Stop Utility:

This site will prompt for installation of an ActiveX control. Install this ActiveX and you will get a comprehensive scan result of your PC wrt Windows 7 readiness.

 

Cheers!!!

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Minimum System Requirements – Windows 7

Aug 12

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Good News!!! If you are running Microsoft Windows Vista on your PC already, you do not have to pay heavily for a hardware upgrade if you intend to install Microsoft Windows 7.

Below is the comparision of Minimum system requirement for Windows Vista & Windows 7:

Windows 7:

  • 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 Vista – Home Premium / Business / Ultimate:

  • 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  • 1 GB of system memory
  • 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
  • Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
    • WDDM Driver
    • 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
    • Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
    • 32 bits per pixel

 

Additional requirements to use certain features:

For some Windows Media Center functionality a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required

Windows Touch and Tablet PCs require specific hardware

DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive

BitLocker requires Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2

BitLocker To Go requires a USB flash drive

Windows XP Mode requires an additional 1 GB of RAM, an additional 15 GB of available hard disk space, and a processor capable of hardware virtualization with Intel VT or AMD-V turned on.

 

For more information, visit following links:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/system-requirements.aspx

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-System-Requirements-110635.shtml

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