Best version of Windows 7 for Netbook?

Fair enough but I would never buy hardware that has limited uses, little to no upgrade potential, and not even a dvd drive?

Agreed.

I've installed Win 7 Pro on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One 531 with a N270 Atom and 1GB of ram and it works superbly. Aero is on and it connects to Homegroup with no issues.

I recently purchased a Toshiba NB200 12w with win7 starter ,1.67 mhz , 1 GB ram expandable to 2GB,250GB HDD,11hours max Battery life, built in camera and microfone,bluetooth,wireless ,3 usb (they charge your mobile as well ) all that for about £300 ...upgraded to Win7 ultimate ..working like a dream ..no problems whasoever (YET).. a reall mean machine.

drjim said:

Frostmourne said:

Fair enough but I would never buy hardware that has limited uses, little to no upgrade potential, and not even a dvd drive?

I knew there would be a reasonable retort. My response is the same as yours: Fair enough.

I just wanted to put another 2 cents in on the usefullness of the Netbooks :

My wife wanted a Netbook and my arguement to her was that for the price of the Netbook, she could get a small laptop (even though I have enough hardware to support her cause) but she wanted her own.

Now I like the concept of the Netbook but the price value made no sense to me.

I also loved the Jornada 728 palmtop PC era except that crappy Windows CE/2000 left me smarting and with the larger screen and keyboard, I could travel or be in a training class and be able to dial in remotely to the office (which I have had to do using my palm pc is awesome without having to lug around one of my portable work stations.

Much thanks to the $100 PC effort which forced the industry to create these small wonders and the fact that I recently was able to get 2 for nearly free (HP C210) by adding 2 lines to my plan (I was able to pickup the previous model old stock ) to make room for the new ones. A deal that can't be beat.

The models that I have have the Atom 450 and 250G HDD. The new models are the 455 with 160G hdd. If I could upgrade to the dual core processor I would but the performance for me is awesome.

And I can put Linux on here (Puppy Linux) and keep it smoking hot for years to come.

An awesome value!

Eunix

Wow...first post was in a nearly one year old thread. Holy necropost, Batman!

Well, I was doing some research on the recommended version of 7 to upgrade my lil Netbookies to and could not resist adding a comment to help someone else along!

Cheers