| Windows 7 vs. Windows XP for Netbooks
Posted: 7/2/2009 7:50:05 PM | Here is a pretty solid read for anyone interested in what OS is best for netbooks.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-7-xp,2339.html
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Joined: 4/23/2009
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| Windows 7 vs. Windows XP for Netbooks
Posted: 7/2/2009 10:14:40 PM | Looks to me like Linux & XP are the best choices.
Out of the Linux options:
Xubuntu (xfce version of Ubuntu) is really light on resources & I've had it running on 64mb ram (memory)
I'm currently running openSUSE v11.1 (Linux) & Ubuntu v9.04 (Linux) on my netbooks and love it!
>Ubuntu came with all of the drivers built into the kernel so it ran perfectly out of the box
>SUSE needed a wifi driver which is easy to get. Just download ndiswrapper or ndisgtk and the driver from the computer manufacturers website
*If using XP, its not a bad idea to uninstall any extra/unused software/crapware and manage the startup apps w/msconfig | |
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| Windows 7 vs. Windows XP for Netbooks
Posted: 7/4/2009 2:34:07 PM | I've got Ubuntu and Win 7 RC on my Acer Aspire One (dual boot)...overall half-decent speed in Win7, flys with Ubuntu.
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