IT Support | Windows 7 SP1
Posted by Solutions Center on Mon, Jul 19, 2010
Are you a new Operating System earlier adopter or one who typically waits for the first Service Pack release of a new OS? I tend to be a wait and see adopter. If there are no glaring issues after a few months of a new OS release, and I feel the new features will benefit me, then I will perform a clean install. I don’t like upgrades. Working in IT Support, history has taught me that upgrading to a new OS causes problems; sometimes of apocalyptic proportions.
For those of you who wait for SP1, I salute you. Delayed gratification can be a good thing. Except in the case of Vista SP1. If you went that route you were probably not too happy.
Service Packs tend to include new features. This is not the case with Windows 7 SP1; at least in the current beta version. SP1 contains only a compilation of all the updates released so far. So if you want Windows 7 with SP1 before the official release, just install Windows 7 and run Windows Update.
Here is a list of the base system requirements.
- 1 GHz or faster x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) processor
- 1 GB RAM for x86 or 2 GB RAM for x64
- 16 GB available disk space for x86 or 20 GB for x64
- DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
As more is always better with computers; if you want to use advanced features like BitLocker you will need more. Here is a link to Microsoft’s official Windows 7 system requirements.
http://windows.microsoft.com/systemrequirements
If you would like help identifying your companies IT Solutions needs and their requirements please contact Trigon at http://www.trigonit.com/contact-trigon
