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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2008-04-28
I've been running Starcraft through wine on a Pentium 3 Compaq laptop with a junk video card and 768mb ram for months now. That's without tweaking anything either. I've played some LAN matches with my room mate but not battle.net. I'd like a desk instead of my couch if I were to play competitively.
Are netbooks really THAT slow that a P3 can out perform it?