Friday 20 March 2015

Windows 10 Minimum Hardware requirement for PC, Phone & Tablet


64 bits PC minimum system requirement
  • 800x600 pixels of resolution
  • DirectX 9 Graphics
  • 2GB of RAM
  • 20 GB of storage


32 bits PC minimum system requirement
  • 800x600 pixels of resolution
  • DirectX 9 Graphics
  • 1GB of RAM
  • 16GB of storage


Phones requirements
  • Screen sizes ranging from 3-inch to 7.99-inch
  • 512MB of RAM for FWVGA (854x480 pixels) WVGA (800x480 pixels)
  • 1GB of RAM for WSVGA (1024x600 pixels) devices, HD (1280x720 pixels), WXGA (1366x768 pixles), and qHD (960x540 pixels)
  • 2GB of RAM for full-HD (1920x1080 pixels), WUXGA (1920x1200 pixels), and WSXGA (1440x900 pixels) devices
  • 3GB of RAM for WQXGA (2560x1600 pixels) and QWXGA (2048x1152 pixels) devices
  • 4GB of RAM for QSZGA (2560x2048 pixels) resolution devices.


Minimum of 4GB of inbuilt storage is required for phones, and for handsets with this base spec an SD card slot will be required to support updates.
Windows 10 for phones also requires power and volume up/ down buttons, while for phones with a WVGA display, Start, back, and search buttons are also required.

Tablets requirements
Tablets required buttons are power and volume up/ down, while Start and rotational lock buttons are optional.

Windows 7 RTM, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 RTM OSes can be only updated via the media (iso image),

Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 S14 can be updated to Windows 10 both via media and Windows Update.

Also, Windows Phone 8.1 will be updated via Windows Update only, while Windows Phone 8 users will first be required to upgrade to Windows Phone 8.1. Although Windows RT is seen without any upgrade path.


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