Test: Memory 512MB test for Windows system

For work, Ed Bott of ZDNet recently installed the Windows 7 Ultimate x64 system in the virtual machine.

Although it only allocates 512MB of memory, it does not feel a significant delay during installation and operation, and the memory usage is somewhat surprising:

After the system is installed, it only takes up less than 9GB of hard disk space.

Considering Windows Vista's "hunger" for memory and hard drive space, Ed Bott decided to do a comparison test, installing XP, Vista and Windows in the virtual machine, respectively, with a memory allocation of 512MB.

1. Install Windows XP SP3 with all available patches and updates, including IE7, WMP11 and Windows Search 4.0. The only non-system built-in program is Firefox. As a result, the hard disk takes up 5.7 GB and the memory takes up 150 MB.

2. Install Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 x86, upgrade all critical and recommended patches, and do not install third-party software. As a result, the hard disk takes up 14.3 GB and the memory takes up 299 MB.

3, install Windows 7 Ulimate x86 Beta, upgrade all key and recommended patches, do not install third-party software. As a result, the hard disk takes up 8.6 GB and the memory takes up 216 MB.

Based on XP's hard disk and memory footprint (100), the relative chart is as follows:

In fact, numbers and charts do not tell you everything. On a 512MB memory system, Windows 7 starts and shuts down significantly faster than Vista. Some daily operations can make Vista slow to respond, but it runs smoothly on Windows 7.

Finally, Ed Bott increased the memory allocation to 1GB. As a result, Vista's speed increased significantly, and the gap between Windows and Windows 7 narrowed, but the latter still occupies less.