Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Aug 2009 23:00 UTC
I think we can finally put a certain myth to rest that's been circling around the web for a while now. Microsoft often claimed that netbooks running Linux saw higher return rates than those running Windows, but according to Dell, this is utter nonsense.
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I think this is the main point.
People mistankingly assume that a Netbook is a small and cheap laptop, but of course we know it isn't.
So a portion of the customers return it because of the quoted reason.
What people in this discussion are missing it that this happends independent of which operating system is installed, at least for Dell.
Just because a model uses WindowsXP does not mean it will run the software the user wants to run on it. The operating system might be compatible, the CPU might understand the instructions sent to it, but properly executing instructions of a properly installed program is not equal to running the software. Technically it is, for the users it isn't.