Marcus

You'll find Win7 runs very well on lower end hardware. If the machine runs XP ok, it'll run Win7 just as well. The OS has a smaller footprint than Vista (around 10GB-12GB for Win7 Enterprise), and we've not seen any of the same driver issues that Vista exhibited. There are some nice features such as XP mode (not in all Win7 versions), which allows you to run a WinXP virtual machine in the background, and have the apps installed on that virtual machine appear to be running on the Win7 desktop. This is great for older apps that may not work on 7, but you'll need a machine with either AMD-V or Inter VT-x. We've not seen an app we couldn't run under 7 yet at any rate. Bundling Media Centre in all versions is a nice touch too. Additionally Win7 knows what to do with solid state drives and will turn off incompatible features such as indexing and disk defragmentation, both of which are the enemies of SSD's.

All the best

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