What's the most misleading 'minimum spec' you've seen in software?

2 DeborahEmeni_ 0 5/6/2025, 3:14:04 PM

Just for fun (and some pain) — what’s the most laughably unrealistic minimum system requirement you’ve come across? Vista on 512MB RAM? A "lightweight" dev tool that eats 2GB idle? Drop your worst offenders and how badly it went in real use.

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What's the most misleading 'minimum spec' you've seen in software?

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