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Experiment: Installing Windows 10 On a 7-Year-Old Acer Aspire One

Posted by timothy on from the backwards-looking dept.

jones_supa writes: Windows 10 will launch in less than a week and it is supposed to work flawlessly on devices already powered by Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, as Microsoft struggled to keep system requirements unchanged to make sure that everything runs smoothly. Device drivers all the way back to Windows Vista platform (WDDM 1.0) are supported. Softpedia performed a practical test to see how Windows 10 can run on a 7-year-old Acer Aspire One netbook powered by Intel Atom N450 processor clocked at 1.66 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, and a 320 GB mechanical hard disk. The result is surprising to say the least, as installation not only went impressively fast, but the operating system itself also works fast.

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  1. Re:OS X by ratbag · · Score: 4, Informative

    My Late 2009 Mac Mini is running Plex server and home theatre on 10.10.4. First quote I could find about system requirements (from a Mac World article here )

    Like Yosemite, El Capitan can run on the following Macs:

    iMac (Mid-2007 or later)

    MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)

    MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)

    MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)

    Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)

    Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)

    Xserve (Early 2009)

    So, which of your three-year old machines is not on that list?

  2. Re: ... and the hype for Windows 10 begins.... by jones_supa · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are rectangular/square, just like the taskbar icons in Windows 7 that everyone I know loves.

    Take a closer look.

    The taskbar icons in Windows 7 have glass effect, nice diagonal gradient and rounded corners. Try hovering the mouse cursor over icons of running applications: there is even a sleek little lamp effect which follows the cursor, and the color of that effect matches the application icon. Also the icon of the active application has brighter background than others.

    These kind of small touches are missing in the Windows 10 UI.