Hi guys
I'm intrigued with these new netbooks -- they are selling incredibly well and most are being delivered with XP installed.
I just wonder how Microsoft is viewing this development (I'll bet it was hugely surprised by the popularity of these). I've got one myself
-- I HATE BLACKBERRY'S -- A CORPORATE "TETHERING MACHINE" -- mark of a 21st century wage slave subservient to the whim of some boss -- rather like a domestic servant in the late 18th cent.
I also don't like looking at the tiny screens of mobile phones or fiddling around on the Internet with those tiny buttons. A proper computer is ALWAYS my preference of choice.
However travelling around with a 8.9 inch Netbook is great -- even better now in the days of hideous Airport security and limited carry on baggage.
Even for my clumsy fingers the keyboard is OK and it's a real computer where you can watch DVD's and do real work as well -- OK Heavy Photoshopping might be a bit of an effort but you can certainly process a few pictures.
I've managed to get 2GB RAM in mine as well. Eventually 4GB modules will appear but these are a little while off from being affordable.
(The surprise here is a bit like TEXTS for the mobile phone operators -- texting was just added on as an afterthought as the bandwidth was negligible --nobody expected it to take off) .
Now this places Microsoft in a dilemma. Most people with these netbooks won't want to run VISTA (although I suppose it's possible if you are mad enough to try). So what do they do.
By the time Windows 7 reaches retail there will be literally 100,000's of new netbooks out there running XP.
Do they go for SP4 and another few years extension -- or will they give these people a W7 upgrade path.
I know if I were a typical user I wouldn't be very keen on doing a fresh NEW install on a computer that was only say 2 months old.
Maybe 32 bit users will get a proper XP==>W7 upgrade after all.
BTW Build 7022 runs very nicely on the Netbook.
cheers
jimbo
I'm intrigued with these new netbooks -- they are selling incredibly well and most are being delivered with XP installed.
I just wonder how Microsoft is viewing this development (I'll bet it was hugely surprised by the popularity of these). I've got one myself
-- I HATE BLACKBERRY'S -- A CORPORATE "TETHERING MACHINE" -- mark of a 21st century wage slave subservient to the whim of some boss -- rather like a domestic servant in the late 18th cent.
I also don't like looking at the tiny screens of mobile phones or fiddling around on the Internet with those tiny buttons. A proper computer is ALWAYS my preference of choice.
However travelling around with a 8.9 inch Netbook is great -- even better now in the days of hideous Airport security and limited carry on baggage.
Even for my clumsy fingers the keyboard is OK and it's a real computer where you can watch DVD's and do real work as well -- OK Heavy Photoshopping might be a bit of an effort but you can certainly process a few pictures.
I've managed to get 2GB RAM in mine as well. Eventually 4GB modules will appear but these are a little while off from being affordable.
(The surprise here is a bit like TEXTS for the mobile phone operators -- texting was just added on as an afterthought as the bandwidth was negligible --nobody expected it to take off) .
Now this places Microsoft in a dilemma. Most people with these netbooks won't want to run VISTA (although I suppose it's possible if you are mad enough to try). So what do they do.
By the time Windows 7 reaches retail there will be literally 100,000's of new netbooks out there running XP.
Do they go for SP4 and another few years extension -- or will they give these people a W7 upgrade path.
I know if I were a typical user I wouldn't be very keen on doing a fresh NEW install on a computer that was only say 2 months old.
Maybe 32 bit users will get a proper XP==>W7 upgrade after all.
BTW Build 7022 runs very nicely on the Netbook.
cheers
jimbo
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