Posted on Friday, May 21 2010 @ 5:31 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Bridging the gap between tiny and not too functional smartphones and
sizeable notebook computers, netbooks have suddenly turned interesting
to those that needed full multimedia capabilities of a PC in a smaller
packaging. It’s been nearly three years since the first netbooks
appeared, with 60 million being sold since. Modest hardware, the need
for the best autonomy possible and a lower price of the final product
all cried for the familiar (and cheap) Windows XP. Although it’s more
than capable to satisfy the needs of users, the ten-year-old XP is,
nevertheless, an ugly detail on the screens of modern netbooks.
Microsoft became aware of that, and decided to offer netbook users a
special version of Windows 7, optimized for their PCs…
Read more
at InsideHW.