Reply With Quote7 is unsupported so really it's 8 or 10 and the difference between the two in ram requirement terms is not big.Originally Posted by uktotty
No ability to slot in another stick of ram?
So with a max of 4Gb ram available on a lappy, what's the best version of windows to install?
I thought 10 only worked well with 8Gb or greater
7 is unsupported so really it's 8 or 10 and the difference between the two in ram requirement terms is not big.
No ability to slot in another stick of ram?
Afrad not 2 x 2Gb is the max config
All of my surface machines are 4gb, and they run windows 10 without a hitch. 4gb is still more than enough for casual use. The quality of your storage is normally a more significant factor on how a machine runs.
Hmm...4GB, maybe DOS 3.11.
Well that's good to know, he's just upgraded to a nice fast SSD
10 will be fine with 4 gig.
Windows 10 will be fine (but slow) - I have an 11 year old Dell latitude with 4gb (not my main machine!) and it ticks over tolerably.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Stick Ubuntu on it - it’ll fly.. ;)
Cheers,
Plug
+1
If yours is slow, it is not because of the total amount of ram available. My go to machine is a 4gb SP4, for general use, it flies.
My daughter has a W10 Mini PC using a Celeron J3455 with 4GB of RAM, and it’s not slow for general PC browsing and media stuff.
It’s got a 1st Gen SSD in it which helps, and it even runs games using the chips onboard GPU at lower resolutions.
She loves SIMS 4, and she’s happy with how that small low power setup works.
Have a Dell E6440 as a spare machine with only 4gb of ram running Win 10 and for general use it flies no issues.
Just download some extra RAM?
I'm joking.
WIN 10 with 4GB is OK (but a bit slow). You just have to be careful on loading up lots of Chrome tabs or programs than need lots of RAM. Once you do this it will slow to a crawl as everything gets swapped out to the thrashing (spinning) disk. An SSD would solve that situation largely. However, every time I think about adding an SSD, I start looking at new PCs instead! I will wait until the volume of complaints from SWMBO rises to a critical level before deciding what to do. Good quality refurbished PCs are available from many places online for only a few hundred quid.
Didn't DOS have a limit of 64K address space? 16 bit OS.....Hmm...4GB, maybe DOS 3.11.
Just for completeness and as no one has said it yet, you want the 64Gb version of windoews, not 32Gb.
I'd buy this, personally: https://theunitysoft.com/product/win...e-license-key/ (have personal experience)
Cheers guys, I get his laptop when this is over and stick the SSD in and win 10
Why not replace the 2 x2GB ram for 2 x 4GB and be done with it?
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