RAM for Win 7

Is 2GB enough to do a good job with Win7 for basic text editing, etc? Not interested in video or other demanding applications.

Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney wrote:
Is 2GB enough to do a good job with Win7 for basic text editing, etc?
Not interested in video or other demanding applications.

W7-32 should be ok.
Many of our older company basic W7-32 Lenovo laptops have 2g ram.
They work ok for word, excel, email, web browsing, etc.
They do not work good with any sort of moving picture.

On 5/19/2015 10:51 PM, Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney wrote:
Is 2GB enough to do a good job with Win7 for basic text editing, etc? Not interested in video or other demanding applications.


I ran win7 32 bit with 2GB of ram and swapfile turned off for months.
Only time it complained was when I tried to run two instances
of virtualbox.

On Wed, 20 May 2015 13:07:24 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

On Tue, 19 May 2015 22:51:30 -0700, "Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney"
wrote:

Is 2GB enough to do a good job with Win7 for basic text editing, etc? Not interested in video or other demanding applications.


The ram should be adequate for the tasks you describe. However, you neglected
to mention which processor or hard drive you would be using?

If you have a slow drive, you might improve performance by making use of the
Windows 7 ReadyBoost feature.


With 2GB of RAM? Highly unlikely, as far as I'm concerned. ReadyBoost
is valuable only if you have *very* little RAM. For anyone with 2GB or
even close to it, it's useless

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On Wed, 20 May 2015 13:07:24 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

On Tue, 19 May 2015 22:51:30 -0700, "Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney"
wrote:

Is 2GB enough to do a good job with Win7 for basic text editing, etc? Not interested in video or other demanding applications.


The ram should be adequate for the tasks you describe. However, you neglected
to mention which processor or hard drive you would be using?

If you have a slow drive, you might improve performance by making use of the
Windows 7 ReadyBoost feature.


With 2GB of RAM? Highly unlikely, as far as I'm concerned. ReadyBoost
is valuable only if you have *very* little RAM. For anyone with 2GB or
even close to it, it's useless

I use ReadyBoost on one of my pcs. I "feel' it does improve performance
or at least it seems to make desktop respond slightly more quickly. I
did notice that when I replaced a spinning hd with a SSD drive on
similar 2nd pc Win7 disabled Readyboost it was using. The SSD is faster
than the thumbdrive so proper thing to do but it was unexpected Win7
would "test" that.

On Tue, 19 May 2015 22:51:30 -0700, Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney wrote:

Is 2GB enough to do a good job with Win7 for basic text editing, etc?
Not interested in video or other demanding applications.

My description would be that it won't 'run', but it will 'walk'.

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Is 2GB enough to do a good job with Win7 for basic text editing, etc? Not
interested in video or other demanding applications.




Yes I have 2 GB for Windows 7 32bit. Works fine.



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Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 08:07:58 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Wed, 20 May 2015 13:07:24 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

On Tue, 19 May 2015 22:51:30 -0700, "Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney"
wrote:

Is 2GB enough to do a good job with Win7 for basic text editing, etc? Not interested in video or other demanding applications.

The ram should be adequate for the tasks you describe. However, you neglected
to mention which processor or hard drive you would be using?

If you have a slow drive, you might improve performance by making use of the
Windows 7 ReadyBoost feature.

With 2GB of RAM? Highly unlikely, as far as I'm concerned. ReadyBoost
is valuable only if you have *very* little RAM. For anyone with 2GB or
even close to it, it's useless

Thanks for sharing. Can you provide any kind of documentation to support that
assertion?

I have found readyboost to make a significant difference in machines with slow
drives, such as many older notebooks, even when those machines have 2+ gb
memory.

For more information, see this MS Technet article:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../ff356869.aspx

The original Anandtech study should suffice.
ReadyBoost is a "sub-1GB" technology.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2163/6

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By using various means to put the OS under RAM pressure,
you can get some idea of the range of RAM required.

1) Win7/Win8 "fully inflated" state uses 1GB for the OS portion.
A 2GB machine will give 1GB to OS, 1GB to user, system speed
should be "normal, fully performant".
2) When under pressure, about the lowest the OS portion will
go (after purging itself), is around 350MB. I've managed to
do better than that. If you deflate the OS multiple times,
you can get slight improvements each time. Not that this is
important or anything.
3) Windows 8 tablets at $100 (Walmart Black Friday tablet),
run with 1GB of RAM soldered down. Which means the OS is in
a permanently deflated state. If you run an application, you
can rely on the OS using 350MB (when apps are trying to use
all the RAM), leaving 650MB max for applications.

These are just general rules of thumb, things you can
discover by doing your own testing.

Back when CHKDSK x64 version was a pig, and used all
system RAM during a CHKDSK run, you could use that
as a means to put the OS under RAM pressure. That's
where I got the 350MB approximate value for a
deflated OS.

Paul

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Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney wrote:
Is 2GB enough to do a good job with Win7 for basic text editing, etc?
Not interested in video or other demanding applications.

W7-32 should be ok.
Many of our older company basic W7-32 Lenovo laptops have 2g ram.
They work ok for word, excel, email, web browsing, etc.
They do not work good with any sort of moving picture.

My 7-64 big (but not particularly powerful - 2 core) laptop has 3G, and
seems fine - certainly including Skype video, though obviously that's
mostly static. I'd agree, for most non-video uses, 2G should be quite
adequate for 7-32.

(7 itself is overkill for such things, of course, but since you're
posting here, I guess you intend to use it anyway. My main machine - on
which I'm typing this - is XPhomeSP3, single core 1.x GHz, 2G, and is
fine for everything I use it for including playing local video as long
as it's not HD; it's not too smooth at remote video like YouTube.)
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