“Way too low” isn’t really true. I have RDP and Firefox and Word and Excel open,...

Clubber · on April 3, 2023

It depends on the version. In Vista, the one mentioned, they certainly were. It you ran a computer using the minimum specs, it was almost unusable.

goosedragons · on April 4, 2023

The same could be said of Mac OS 10.4 at the same time. It was an absolute dog on systems without Quartz Extreme support.

babypuncher · on April 3, 2023

Vista came out over 15 years ago, it hardly seems relevant today.

layer8 · on April 3, 2023

Yes, but I think Vista was an outlier in that respect.

Clubber · on April 3, 2023

It was certainly the most egregious I recall, but here's an article complaining about Windows 10 minimum specs too.

Here's one for Windows 11

Seems Windows 8 was ok