http://adymo.blogspot.com/2009/02/kd...ni-review.html
Despite hardware that Microsoft recommends XP for over Vista (and, notably, on a computer with only 1GB of memory) he gets KDE 4.2 running easily.
Also interesting:
I wouldn't put it on a really old computer (like my mom's, which is 2002-vintage and is maxxed out at 512MiB of RAM), but if you can run it on a one-gig EeePC, some of those arguments about KDE 4 using too much memory become moot.... (T)he whole KDE desktop + Konsole application takes only 280 Megabytes RAM! I think this is outstanding result for a modern desktop released in 2009.
Even if you think 280M is too much, there's something you can do. Kubuntu has four autostarted programs written in Python - the printer applet, update notifier, bluetooth daemon and guidance (the power saver application). Those take roughly 95M in RAM. You can use the KPowerSave from KDE3, turn off update notifications and save more memory. If you do that, then the most recent Linux operating system with KDE 4.2 desktop will take exactly as much RAM as 7 year old Windows XP - roughly 180-200M.
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