{"id":166042,"date":"2016-05-24T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T07:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166042"},"modified":"2016-05-24T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T07:23:41","slug":"windows-10-ram-requirements-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166042-windows-10-ram-requirements-increased.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 RAM requirements increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has upped the minimum RAM requirements for Windows 10 for PC, which takes effect as part of the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/160050-big-windows-10-anniversary-update-coming-soon.html\">Anniversary Update<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>release.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/windows\/hardware\/dn915086(v=vs.85).aspx?tduid=(78fa2800acfaba1e38acef0c3c66ce0f)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-ZQoUK1BXQ500EAjDPWXO5Q)()\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>new minimum hardware requirements<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0list 2GB of RAM as the standard for 32-bit desktop versions of Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the RAM standard\u00a0in line with that of the 64-bit requirements, reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2016\/05\/windows-hardware-specs-going-up-for-the-first-time-since-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ars Technica<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum system requirements defined by Microsoft for desktop versions of Windows 10 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Processor &#8211; <strong>1GHz<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>RAM &#8211; <strong>2GB<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Storage &#8211; <strong>16GB for 32-bit \/ 32GB for 64-bit<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Display Resolution &#8211; <strong>800 x 600<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Windows<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/165436-windows-7-gets-new-service-pack.html\">Windows 7 gets new Service Pack<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/164812-microsoft-removes-windows-10-wi-fi-sense.html\">Microsoft removes Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has upped the minimum RAM requirements for Windows 10 for PC, which takes effect as part of the Anniversary Update release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":127880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,123,3096,26970],"class_list":["post-166042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-ram","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166046,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166042\/revisions\/166046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}