Netbook software : watered down?

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Is the netbook software watered down for the smaller processor at all?

Some people tell me it is - but others say it's the standard versions. I mean, can I simply install MS Office from my desktop onto the netbook? When Windows 7 is launched, can I simply load that as well?
 
Dolby said:
Is the netbook software watered down for the smaller processor at all?

Some people tell me it is - but others say it's the standard versions. I mean, can I simply install MS Office from my desktop onto the netbook? When Windows 7 is launched, can I simply load that as well?
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Didnt you know that people are already running windows 7 on them?

If watered down means at a reduced size to allow for the smaller ssd's then I can understand that.
 
AFAIK, its the standard normal version. Thats why they are so popular because you can install your normal software on it.
 
bwana said:
Didnt you know that people are already running windows 7 on them?

If watered down means at a reduced size to allow for the smaller ssd's then I can understand that.
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Yea - and I remember you said I should run it.

But I'd rather wait till the full version is available for sale. I didn't know if I could simply buy it off the shelf and install - or whether I needed to tweak somehow.
 
Dolby said:
Yea - and I remember you said I should run it.

But I'd rather wait till the full version is available for sale. I didn't know if I could simply buy it off the shelf and install - or whether I needed to tweak somehow.
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I'd almost be surprised if Microsoft didn't release a netbook version of w7.
 
They are bwana, mostly the reason why they have worked so hard on making windows 7 faster than xp is for the netbook market.

Vista is dog slow on netbooks but windows 7 ultimate is fast even compared to xp. All they need to do is make a windows 7 install for netbooks that is not 7 odd gb and maybe 2 or 3. Windows 7 on my netbook runs like a dream but that may be aided by the ssd.
 
bwana said:
I'd almost be surprised if Microsoft didn't release a netbook version of w7.
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But that's why I'm saying ... so they're not the same versions you buy on the shelf?
 
Dolby said:
But that's why I'm saying ... so they're not the same versions you buy on the shelf?
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Seems to me - and someone please correct me if I'm wrong - that there is only one version and it is the license that determines what gets installed.
 
bit of confusion.

lets talk xp first.
xp home...
3 versions...(there are more, but not pertinent to this topic)
1) xp home as you buy on shelf
2) xp home as shipped on netbooks (license sticker on bottom of machine will state FOR ULCPC or similar)
3) xp home as INTENDED to be shipped on netbooks...........this is the one causing confusion.

lets talk about 3 above. When the eeepc threat came to microsofts attention they knee-jerked a reaction, which was eventually the ULCPC (ultra-low-cost pc scheme) What this started out as was a downloadable set of scripts which would take a xphome cd, massage it and remove non-needed stuff, set a lot of services to disabled and then spit out an iso, to be used when installing on a netbook with ssd, and e.g. 2gb of space. This didnt really catch on , and I have yet to see one of these type of xphome's in real life. OEM's just basically installed xphome as normal, and used the ULCPC license, which was allowed.

so, on to vista (totally ignored because of the requirements)...
on to win7. I am not telling yet. But personal testing shows a seperate stripped down version isnt necessary.

P.S. to qualift for ULCPC license the machine has to NOT exceed certain requirements...that is why you see a lot of 1gb ram, 1.6ghz cpu, 160gb hard drive netbooks around...microsoft as usual, dictating the market..if you exceed those specs then you have to use full price xp home license.
 
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bwana said:
Seems to me - and someone please correct me if I'm wrong - that there is only one version and it is the license that determines what gets installed.
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Yup far as i can tell the installs for all versions are the same size just the cd key as you say determines what you get.
 
killadoob said:
Yup far as i can tell the installs for all versions are the same size just the cd key as you say determines what you get.
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Makes me wonder then if they're not going to sell W7 on USB as well as on disk.
 
killadoob said:
They are bwana, mostly the reason why they have worked so hard on making windows 7 faster than xp is for the netbook market.
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Wonder if they will port W7 to the ARM architecture as there are lots of ARM based netbooks coming out in the near future.
 
killadoob said:
They are bwana, mostly the reason why they have worked so hard on making windows 7 faster than xp is for the netbook market.

Vista is dog slow on netbooks but windows 7 ultimate is fast even compared to xp. All they need to do is make a windows 7 install for netbooks that is not 7 odd gb and maybe 2 or 3. Windows 7 on my netbook runs like a dream but that may be aided by the ssd.
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Ive got a HP mini (with the 160GB) running W7 7100 perfectly. The same if not better than XP ito speed. Very impressed.
 
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