Comparison between Windows 7 Windows Vista Hardware Requirement

Every operating system requires some minimum hardware configuration to run the Operating systems and the applications inside it. For a command based operating system like DOS and UNIX requires less memory and very minimal hardware to run the OS . Command based operating system will not have Graphic user Interface (GUI) as it requires a set of command to run the applications in the system.

GUI based systems like Windows; Mac operating system requires extensive memory to run the rich user interface applications like Animations applications.
Windows Vista OS requires some set of hardware configuration whereas a Windows 7 OS requires more hardware resource than its pervious OS.

Let us see the Hardware configuration required by Windows Vista and Windows 7 of 32 bit version.

Hardware configuration	Windows Vista (32 bit)	Windows 7 (32 bit)
Processor	800 MHz	1 GHz
RAM(Random Access Memory)	512 MB	1 GB
HDD free space	15 GB	16 GB
Graphics Memory	32 MB128 MB for Aero support

Let us see the Hardware configuration required by Windows Vista and Windows 7 of 64 bit version.

Hardware configuration	Windows Vista (64 bit)	Windows 7 (64 bit)
Processor	1 GHz	1 GHz
RAM(Random Access Memory)	1 GB	2 GB
HDD free space	15 GB	20 GB

When you upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 7 there is no additional hardware required as both of them have almost similar hardware configuration.

In order to make use of the Windows 7 OS features we need at least 2 GHz of processor and 2 GB of RAM and for 64 bit version of Windows 7 we need 2 GHz of processor speed and 3 – 4 GB of RAM will give you a good performance.

Before you begin the upgrade from Windows XP or from Windows Vista to Windows 7 check your system configuration and software compatibility using Windows upgrade advisor which can be donwload from the below link

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx

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