Netbook

Microsofts Windows 7 will run on netbooks, and very well!

Microsoft have written to beta testers asking them to test there new operating system on there low powered notebooks. We can confirm it does run, and uses a lot less system resources and HDD space than vista. Windows have said “Budget machines running full OS with Aero become a reality”. I think this is great for us. The new Windows 7 has less overheads than Vista and also has less of the pre installed drivers that we needed to nlite when installing XP onto the eeepc in the early days of net-booking.

An Asus Eee PC 1000H powered by the 1.6GHz Atom processor with 1GB of RAM with Windows 7, on its own, claimed just 485MB of RAM, as well as booting in slightly less time than it took Windows XP on the same machine.

I personally cant wait for the release of windows 7 so we can test to the full its capabilities and performance on the eeepc.