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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2007-03-20
I've had my Aspire One for a quite a while now and the amount of tweaks required to get decent performance out if it are quite high. These devices are still new and various operating systems weren't really designed with SSD in mind, the performance is awful until you tweak it.
This is one thing Microsoft should be taking advantage with Windows 7, trying to optimise everything as much as possible for SSD. Telling users to avoid SSD netbooks isn't exactly the best strategy. Eventually the cheaper netbooks will probably end up with 1-2GB of RAM and enough disk space to take the newer versions of Windows.