This discussion topic question reminds me of vehicle purchasing process from a dealer. A customer arrives at the dealership, finds a vehicle she/he likes within a budget, and falls in love with the vehicle. However, by the time customer drives off the lot the overall price of the vehicle balloons by at least 20% (with all the up sales, warranty, paint protection, gap insurance and etc.). Furthermore, some people like to supercharge their vehicles to a point that they have to get a permission from FAA to drive it. Obviously, I am exaggerating, but there are some fast drivers out there.
Similar concept applies to Windows 7. Yes, you do need a 2 GB RAM and a 20 GB Hard Drive Space for a 64-bit OS. By the way the same requirements apply to Windows 10. I believe, instead calling it “recommended requirements”, Microsoft should name call it: “initial requirements”. That is how much, a person will need to call it a “bare Windows 7 machine”. In vehicle terms, it will just be enough to get 20 miles under the speed limit when you floor your gas pedal. …show more content…
The SSD drive is dedicated to store OS and programs. While, my desktop idles (with no programs heavy programs running in the background) RAM would run at about 2.13-2.30 GBs, which is about what Microsoft recommends. However, we (users) shouldn’t be just relying on recommended requirements, because applications that we are planning to run on our machines would add additional requirements for extra RAM. For example: according to GamingBolt.com, “Dying Light” is of the Graphically Intensive Games of 2015 (SInha). The will require a dedicated “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 6870 (1GB VRAM)” on top of 4 GB RAM (Makuch). In this case, requirements for RAM would be at least 6 GB, which would be just enough if only there were no other minor programs (anti-virus, skype, chrome, and etc.) running in the RAM at the same