Some people love to go beyond the guidelines and restrictions and they find fun in it. Though some professional researchers may not come into this category. Their experimental activities reveal so many interesting facts sometimes. In the development sectors, which are used for future modifications.
Sakura Nori, a only 16 years old Twitter user is one of those who did experiments for fun. We all know Microsoft recommends at least 1 GB of RAM to run Windows 10. Nori tries to find out this 1GB of RAM is enough to run Windows 10 or more than enough.
On Oracle VM Virtualbox, Nori firstly run Windows 10 with 512 MB RAM. And surprisingly it worked. Then decided to cut the RAM size more until the OS couldn’t run. This experiment stops on 128 MB of RAM where the only blue screen of death appears. Between the beginning and end, three more tests are there with 256MB, 192MB, and 140MB of RAM respectively. 256MB RAM was ok, even with 192MB too. In the case of 140MB of RAM, the machine booted up but crashed at the end, unfortunately.
As a result of this experiment, unexpectedly discovered that Windows 10 can run on 18.75% of recommended RAM which is 192MB. Nori told to tom’s Hardware, “I was only able to get task manager, cmd, and file explorer open on 192MB RAM and the performance was very bad with 15MB free.”
During this experiment Dell Inspiron 3670 was used running Arch Linux, CPU was Core i5-8400 with one core dedicated to the virtual machine. The Windows version used was Windows 10 Pro x86. As per Nori, during installation, no service was disabled or didn’t make any change.
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