for mini laptop, is it better to install Windows XP or Windows 7 ?

goldE · 24 Oct 2010

hi

i have mini laptop HP N280 Atom 1.6 with 2G memory

is it be better to install Windows XP or Windows 7 ?

what will work faster ?

thank's in advance

yowanvista · 24 Oct 2010

Install Windows 7 x32

wilywombat · 24 Oct 2010

Ihave a Samsung NB30touch notebook with 2GB RAM and Windows 7 32 bit running sweetly.

Windows i7 920 · 24 Oct 2010

A basic rule of thumb for netbooks:

2GB RAM+: Windows 7 32-bit
1GB or less: Windows XP

That is what I'd go by. Yes, Windows 7 will run on 1 GB of RAM, but this is barely meeting the minimum system requirement and I just can't imagine that it would be very productive having your OS eat up almost all of your RAM.

karlsnooks · 24 Oct 2010

My experience on my netbook:

Win 7 and xp roughly the same.

I prefer Win 7.

As another poster suggested: 2 GB of ram or more if possible.

A slight improvement will occur by using a 4 GB SD or usb 2.0 stick and enabling ReadyBoost.

A noticeable performance boost by also choosing Best Performance in:
WIN Pause/Break key combo | in left-hand list, click on Advanced System Settings | Advanced tab | Settings button in the Performance Section | Visual Effects tab | select Adjust for best performance

You will sacrifice some of the fancy Win 7 graphics but will get better performance.

WIN is the key with the wavy flag.

mikedl · 25 Oct 2010

karlsnooks said:

WIN is the key with the wavy flag.

Not for me, Karl.

for mini laptop, is it better to install Windows XP or Windows 7 ?-screenshot00084.jpg

Thanks for souring me on these forums when you intimated my advice was wrong wherein, clearly, it was not, Karl.

Once again, Goodbye, Karl.

wilywombat · 25 Oct 2010

@Karl, agree re: readyboost but its worth reminding the reader that a 4GB SD card will not give you 4GB readyboost, only the difference between the RAM memory you have fitted and 3GB (Win 7 32bit). So if you have 1GB RAM fitted you get 2GB readyboost and 2GB fitted you get 1GB readyboost. I tried this move when I got my notebook and these are the results.

DeaconFrost · 25 Oct 2010

On this particular system, you can forget about ReadyBoost. It's been well tested that once the system gets to 1 GB of system memory, ReadyBoost won't provide any actual boost (pun intended).

Zepher · 25 Oct 2010

Windows i7 920 said:

A basic rule of thumb for netbooks:

2GB RAM+: Windows 7 32-bit
1GB or less: Windows XP

That is what I'd go by. Yes, Windows 7 will run on 1 GB of RAM, but this is barely meeting the minimum system requirement and I just can't imagine that it would be very productive having your OS eat up almost all of your RAM.

I've put Windows 7 on a few netbooks with 1GB and 2GB of ram and they ran fine, I just wouldn't put 7 on it if you have 512MB.

I ran Win7 Ultimate on my Dell Mini 9 for almost a year and then put OSX Snow Leopard on it.

karlsnooks · 25 Oct 2010

to help clear up some misunderstandings involving ReadyBoost:

Keep tabs on ReadyBoost with Windows 7's Performance Monitor | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com
Monitoring ReadyBoost on Windows 7 - Saveen Reddy's blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
ReadyBoost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ReadyBoost - Windows 7 features - Microsoft Windows
ReadyBoost Performance Test : Windows Vista and Windows 7 Help
Take a closer look at ReadyBoost features in Windows 7 | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com
Windows 7 Readyboost Really Boosts | Connected Internet

As you might have surmised, at one time I did some personal research on ReadyBoost.