> One set of rumors has Win7 running on a netbook - time > will tell.
If you have two gigs of memory in many netbooks, Win7 appears to walk. Its rating system though will make it a "1" or less and many features won't be available. That being said, it's a major improvement over Vista which can so slow most netbook processors that it's a joke. That being said, there are still some bumps in the road to win7 working. It's missing drivers for lots of common NICs (the Sis900 is especially galling, it's way too common onboard to have missed) and bluntly on a netbook, be prepared to already have the drivers for either your wireless chip or NIC already on the computer, or in an external DVD/CD. It's an irony that the easiest way to install Win7 on a netbook is via a net install started from XP (lot of Code 5 UDF errors with Intel Atom based netbooks apparently for DVD installs) and then losing the ability to get something done until drivers for either the NIC or wifi setup are found (hint the XP ones work). All of this being said, Ubuntu is a much better choice for netbooks presently, even XP is. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
