Windows 7's Hardware Requirement

The hardware requirements on different Windows Operating Systems

The Windows 7 RC version has been released on Apr 30, 2009 for Technet subscribers only. On May 5 everyone should be able to get it for free. Here is the hardware requirement for installing Windows 7 RC on your computer. We can see that it is about the same as Windows Vista, but Windows 7 is 3 years later than Windows Vista.

　　Windows 7 Hardware Requirements：

　　·CPU 1GHz(32 bits OR 64 bits)。

　　·1GB Memory(32 Bits)；2GB(64 Bits)。

　　·16GB Hard Drive(32 Bits)；20GB Hard Drive(64 Bits)。

　　·Support WDDM 1.0 or higher DirectX 9