Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Oct 2008 23:40 UTC
I've been running Windows Vista Ultimate on my Acer Aspire One netbook (with 1.5GB of RAM, and a 30GB hard drive) for a while now, without any problems or performance issues. I have the full Aero Glass experience, and I didn't need to do any performance tweaking or fiddling with services. I even made a few very crappy videos to show it all off. Apparently, Steven Sinofsky thinks Vista - and therefore, Windows 7 - can run just fine on a netbook too, and that's why he demonstrated Windows 7 running on a netbook this morning during the Windows 7 keynote. In an interview with Ars he gave a little more details.
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"If you're buying a netbook, avoid the SSD models. They might be cheaper, but you are going to get extremely frustrated with the SSD."
Can't comment on the SSD, but I'm really happy I went for the HDD. Currently multibooting WinXP, Linpus, and the latest development versions of Ubuntu and Fedora. My only complaint is that the Jmicron multicard reader drivers don't work with the latest Linux kernels.