{"id":1438,"date":"2012-09-07T15:38:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T15:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T15:38:51","slug":"windows-8-rtm-system-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 RTM System Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today August 15th, 2012, Microsoft releases <a title=\"Windows 8 RTM Now Available for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/windows-8-rtm-msdn-technet-subscribers\/\">the RTM version of Windows 8 for MSDN and TechNet subscribers<\/a> along with an evaluation version of Windows 8 Enterprise to early adopters and developers; if you want to give a try and not sure about minimum system requirements then this blog post helps you to determine whether your existing PC is capable to install it or not.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has kept its promise that <a title=\"Windows 8 won\u2019t require any more hardware than Windows 7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/windows-8-wont-require-any-more-hardware-than-windows-7\/\">Windows 8 won\u2019t require any more hardware than Windows 7<\/a>. Grant George, Corporate VC of Windows Test repeats on Bulding Windows 8 blog what Microsoft has said in the past. So Windows 8 RTM works great on the same hardware that powers Windows Vista and Windows 7:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor<\/li>\n<li>1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)<\/li>\n<li>16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)<\/li>\n<li>DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver<\/li>\n<li>Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Got all\u2026 Then you can\u00a0<a title=\"Windows 8 RTM Now Available for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/windows-8-rtm-msdn-technet-subscribers\/\">download the Windows 8 RTM\u00a0<\/a>and experience first-hand the beautiful, fast and fluid experience.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/windows-8-system-requirements\/#ixzz25naSjoj1\">http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/windows-8-system-requirements\/#ixzz25naSjoj1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today August 15th, 2012, Microsoft releases the RTM version of Windows 8 for MSDN and TechNet subscribers along with an evaluation version of Windows 8 Enterprise to early adopters and developers; if you want to give a try and not sure about minimum system requirements then this blog post helps you to determine whether your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"close","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,147],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-windows-8","tag-windows-8","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}