Comment Hmmm .... (Score -1) 554
a single-core 1GHz, 32-bit chip with just 1GB of RAM
I think this described my mother's laptop to a T.
And I can tell you in no uncertain terms, it wasn't enough resources then, and it isn't enough now.
Her laptop runs Vista, and it's so slow as to be almost unusable.
Unless Microsoft has really done some incredible optimizing, a machine with those specs is a frigging joke, and would likely be terrible to use.
Microsoft's minimum specs have been too low since, well, forever actually -- every system I've seen for the last 20+ years which was the "minimum spec" was barely usable.
This is a marketing tactic, not a measure of what will be a useful machine.