Adinnieken on 02 July 2013
| Superman4 said: So Windows 8 specs are 1GB ram minimum for OS on 32-bit system. Xbox is not running a full version of the Windows 8 OS, however even in a hyper-V environment you need the entire OS for each instance, each requiring separate resources. With the Apps, games and video pass through all functioning at the same time, it is pretty reasonable to say that 3GB will be required for OS alone. Remember, everything is displayed in HD including the menus, a lot is going to be constantly going on in the background on at least two hyper-Vs. I would imagine that the HDD hits will need to kept to a minimum in order to keep performance up as well, which also lends itself to having more available ram for the various hyper-vs being run. http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-runs-three-operating-systems/ |
Except Windows 8 on the PC is not the same as a console OS.
The one OS that will be closest to Windows 8 is the Apps OS, but it's still not a full-blow installation of the OS. The Xbox OS is an updated version of the OS previously used with the Xbox 360. The HyperVisor OS provides the core functionality and the basic UI, but none of the application or gaming features. The OS most likely to need 1GB would be the HyperVisor but even that is a stretch.
That said, even Windows 8 will run in 512MB of RAM, it's just the recommended minimum for reasonable performance is 1GB. Windows Vista Ultimate with the Aero UI was recommended for 1GB of RAM, yet I ran that perfectly fine on a system with 512MB of RAM.
