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math: Windows 7 + netbook = failure - GNU/Linux as remaining winner!
Blog Comment To me, at least, the "Windows 7 Starter Edition" reminds me a little too much of what was going on with Vista. Will Win7 work better on netbooks than Vista does? Anyone who thinks they know should go back and read the history of the Microsoft...
[March 9, 2009, 15:05]
Windows 7 on the Apricot netbook
Blog Comment P4's were supposed to be able to run Vista. However even Vista Business ran slow on a P4 when compared to XP Pro. Maybe Microsoft learned an expensive lesson? Loading up the OS with high maintenance "features/bugs" doesn't pay.
[November 21, 2008, 10:58]
Windows 7 can boot more slowly than Vista
Talkback I have friends with Vista laptops that are still slow and flaky running with all the latest service packs, and compare very unfavourably to my Netbook running Win7. My Netbook boots to a usable state in about 1 minute 20 seconds.
[October 8, 2009, 16:42]
The Windows Premium and the Vista Premium
Blog I think they give a good idea of the premium (penalty) you must pay to get a netbook with Windows rather than Linux, and the additional penalty you must pay to get Vista. HP 2140, WSVGA, 2 GB memory, 160 GB SATA, Vista/XP: CHF 629.74
[April 6, 2009, 17:28]
Linux on Netbooks - Hope for the Future
Blog The massive Hoopla surrounding the release of Windows 7 (aka Vista with Lipstick) got me wondering about the netbook market. Then Microsoft finally started to realize that customers and OEMs alike were onto them about what a pig Vista was (and not...
[October 28, 2009, 8:43]
Microsoft PDC: What to expect
News Microsoft has been growing its share of the netbook segment in recent months. It is critical for Microsoft to be competitive in the netbook segment, which is growing far faster than the market as a whole.
[October 27, 2008, 10:19]
USB could be answer to Windows 7 netbook dilemma
News Microsoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive to allow netbook owners to more easily upgrade their machines, a source has told ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News. Although a USB flash drive could offer the simplest way to move a...
[June 26, 2009, 15:36]
math: Windows 7 + netbook = failure - GNU/Linux as remaining winner!
Blog Since then, Windows XP has become the dominant operating system in the broader netbook market.from http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39622902,00.htm Now, being the insane part of the population, not flexible, dependent and incapable of...
[March 6, 2009, 16:34]
Windows 7 to compete with XP in netbook market
News The unanticipated success of the netbook market over the past year-and-a-half has forced Microsoft to repeatedly postpone the retirement of Windows XP, mainly because its newer Vista operating system was too processor-hungry to run on the devices.
[March 5, 2009, 15:34]
Windows 7 on the Apricot netbook
Blog Hell no - even on the much more desirable HP 2133 Mini Note netbook, Vista is way too much of a resource hog. Anyway, the last thing I wrote about the Apricot netbook was that it was no longer available with SUSE Linux, with the "manufacturers...
[November 19, 2008, 10:31]
Microsoft faces up to the netbook challenge
News At the time, Microsoft was moving from Windows XP to the far more demanding Windows Vista, whose memory and storage needs were ill-suited to the low-end netbook. However, Aggarwal is assuming Microsoft will get $17 more for each copy of Windows 7...
[March 13, 2009, 9:05]
Nvidia puts high-def graphics into netbooks
News That situation that has led to the prolonging of Windows XP's life, while Microsoft looks for a way to successfully address the netbook market. The Atom processor is ubiquitous in the netbook market. The Ion platform will also let netbook users...
[December 18, 2008, 15:33]
Sony VAIO P review
Reviews Taken as a Netbook, it falls behind systems with Windows XP, such as HP's new Mini 2140 (which has a slightly faster version of Intel's Atom CPU, and costs around £350), in our benchmark tests. When it comes to Intel-Atom-powered systems, it's no...
[January 19, 2009, 12:08]
A look at the most exciting gadgets of CES 2009
News Over the past year, Asus has released what feels like dozens of Eee netbook models. The Eee T91 tablet netbook, pictured above, is one example. Sony has always denied any intention of producing a netbook, but the Vaio P — billed as a 'lifestyle PC...
[January 9, 2009, 16:30]
Netbook platforms: VIA Nano v. Intel Atom review
Reviews For reference, we compared the netbook results with a conventional desktop machine based on a 2.5GHz dual-core Pentium E5200. We looked at the two main netbook processors, the 1.8GHz VIA Nano L2100 and the 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230.
[February 10, 2009, 16:22]
Win 7 on Netbooks? Easy to do.
Talkback You type in a 25 character code you get on the certificate, your credit card number and the MS Mothership downloads a special token to your netbook that unlocks Windows Home Basic already on your computer, Viola!
[March 20, 2009, 7:11]
Ballmer on Google, the economy and Windows 7
News One of the biggest parts of the PC business that's really taken off amid an, obviously, challenging time overall is the netbook segment. When they first came out, I'm not sure if people knew whether they were PCs or something else, and I think...
[January 9, 2009, 7:35]
HP Mini 2140 - Strongly Recommended!
Blog It came with SuSE Linux Enterprice Desktop (SLED) 10, which is rather old already, but that didn't matter to me because I already knew that I was going to reload it with Ubuntu Netbook Remix. What more could you ask for from a netbook?
[July 7, 2009, 9:33]
HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog I received my new HP 2133 Mini-Note (netbook, if you want to call it that) Friday afternoon. The 2133 doesn't have a CD/DVD drive (duh, it's a netbook), so you have to use an external USB drive to load XP.
[January 25, 2009, 7:41]
HP Mini 2140 review
Reviews Now that the plastic-clad, Atom-powered, consumer-orientated Mini 1000 has become a hit, HP's business side is taking another crack at the netbook market with the radically updated HP Mini 2140, which costs from £359 (ex.
[February 3, 2009, 14:34]
