On Wed, August 26, 2009 9:36 pm, Morgan Storey wrote: > Unfortunately from what I have read a lot of the manufacturers moved to > XP > on the slightly higher models, and models with larger disks, and a lot of > those sales where XP machines. So much so that MS continued shipping XP > and supporting it. They have now even made a cutdown version of 7 for > netbooks. But it is progress, there are a heap of people out there using > Linux on thei > netbooks, the missus was already a convert and probably only bought her > netbook cause she knew everything would just work with Linux.
yes, I saw similar articles (and it seems to be confirmed when spec-browsing) according to an OEM offer out of PRC someone showed me, the cost of OEM XPH was USD30 or 35 (no idea if it was genuine) also saw some article claiming Intel won't allow 1.6Ghz CPUs for the 11" netbooks (as not to compete with laptops), and I see Acer's 11" is 1.3 CPU not 1.6 -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
