Question: what are the minimum hardware requirements for windows 8?
Answer: Processor. 1 gigahertz (GHz)* or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 (more info)
RAM. 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
Hard disk space. 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
Graphics card. Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver.