Outlook, Word/Excel, and also need to access the web more or less regularly, with Edge or Chrome and other software eating large amounts of resources. Users usually have some kind of programs running, i.e. Well… if you mean just “Windows 10 booting” then yes, you might be OK with an i3 / i5 and 4 GB of RAM.īut the real thing is: everybody uses PCs not just to see Windows booting…. SO I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU! I HAD PROVEN MYSELF THAT YOU DO NOT NEED SO MUCH RAMS, EXPENSIVE PROCESSOR, NOR SDD NOR EVEN EXPENSIVE GPU! You only need these when you play hardcore games!
How fast do you want? Lighting speed? I also just bought a new laptop with i5-10210, nvme ssd 4GB ddr4 ram and it start up in 11 seconds on Windows 1909 64 bit with all updated and also less than 10 external software! I have many old laptops and old desktops from 15 years ago that tested with Windows 10 are all still good performing.
So i reverted back to Windows 7 HDD because I need some of the old external hardware drivers that Windows 10 did not support anymore. However, I found the Windows 10 was still a little slower than my original bloated Windows 7 on this same netbook.
I had installed some minor software which will run on the background.
Last year, I had tested clean installed 1903 32 bit on my netbook with dual core 1Ghz, 2GB ram and another 240GB HDD, the speed is also acceptable when I use to open 1 browser with a few tabs only. I had also more than 10 external extensions on any browsers. I always open many almost 8 tabs on 2 browser and still performed satisfied. I just updated to latest Windows 2004 from 1909 64 bit, Its same good performance with dual core 2.6Ghz processor with 8GB ddr2 ram and old 250GB HDD. SSD/NVMe: at least 128 GB for both 64-bit and 32-bit OS.RAM: 4 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 16 GB for 64-bit.Processor: Intel 8th generation processors (Intel i3/i5/i7/i9-7x), Core M3-7xxx, Xeon E3-xxxx, and Xeon E5-xxxx processors, AMD 8th generation processors (A Series Ax-9xxx, E-Series Ex-9xxx, FX-9xxx) or ARM64 processors (Snapdragon SDM850 or later).So, the optimal hardware configuration for Windows 10 looks at least as follows: Other notable hardware requirements include Intel 8th generation processors (Intel i3/i5/i7/i9-7x), Core M3-7xxx, Xeon E3-xxxx, and Xeon E5-xxxx processors, AMD 8th generation processors (A Series Ax-9xxx, E-Series Ex-9xxx, FX-9xxx) or ARM64 processors (Snapdragon SDM850 or later). "If you are a decision maker purchasing new devices and you want to enable the best possible security configuration, your device should meet or exceed these standards.", it says. The document mentions these requirements from the point of security. It has very poor performance, so the SSD requirement makes sense. I have a laptop here with an Intel Core i7 Mobile CPU and 16GB Ram with a 20H1 build installed on a classic HDD. 2GB of RAM is nothing for the OS, and hard disk kills its performance.Īnother official document, first spotted by Vadim Sterkin, sheds some light on what hardware Microsoft themselves consider suitable for their product.Īs is evident from the document, you must have 8 GB of RAM, or better 16 GB, and SSD/NVMe plays an important role for the device configuration. Display resolution: 800 x 600, a minimum diagonal display size for the primary display of 7-inches or larger.Īnyone who tries to use Windows 10 on such hardware can confirm that these system requirements are far optimistic.Hard disk space: 32 GB for both 64-bit and 32-bit OS.RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit.Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC.