Windows 7 on Netbooks
Almost all netbooks which have been sold till now come with either Linux or Windows XP pre-installed, with only a few models available with Windows Vista. The problem with the latter O/S is the fact that it is too much power hungry and the combination of cpu, graphics chipset and memory available on most netbooks cannot handle Vista. However it is now very obvious that things will soon change and this will not happen because of some new CPU or more RAM. As a matter of fact it seems that the Intel Atom N270 which runs at 1.6 GHz will continue to power the vast majortity of netbooks for quite some time. What is going to change all is the O/S itself! In fact it seems that all current netbooks will be able to handle all versions of Windows 7 very easily. In order to try this out, this week I have installed Windows 7 Professional on a Samsung NC-10 with 1GB of RAM (this netbooks ships with XP), and I can confirm that Windows 7 is running on it at almost the same speed of Windows XP! I am also confident that if I had to add more RAM, Windows 7 would be much faster. This is certainly good news for the vast majority of current netbook users, but I guess that it is also bad news for netbook manufacturers, at least for those that were hoping to sell faster models to existing netbook owners!
For more information on Windows 7 click here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/tour.aspx
For more information on the Samsung NC10 click here:
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/office/mobile-computing/netbooks/NP-NC10-KA01US/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=spec
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