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From: Bob Newman on 28 Oct 2009 20:58 If Microsoft says that Win 7 will run just fine on 1 GB why don't they install it (instead of Starter Edition) on netbooks? Bob
From: Barry Watzman on 28 Oct 2009 21:54 "Starter Edition" IS Windows 7. Bob Newman wrote: > If Microsoft says that Win 7 will run just fine on 1 GB why don't they > install it (instead of Starter Edition) on netbooks? > > Bob > >
From: Larry on 29 Oct 2009 01:54 "Bob Newman" <bobnewman(a)cox.net> wrote in news:cV4Gm.40366$cL1.12721 @newsfe20.iad: > If Microsoft says that Win 7 will run just fine on 1 GB why don't they > install it (instead of Starter Edition) on netbooks? > > Bob > > > Do you need an answer to that question?.....(c;] Ah, I didn't think so..... -- Larry
From: Bob Newman on 29 Oct 2009 16:34 "Larry" <noone(a)home.com> wrote in message news:Xns9CB313580A94Bnoonehomecom(a)74.209.131.13... > "Bob Newman" <bobnewman(a)cox.net> wrote in news:cV4Gm.40366$cL1.12721 > @newsfe20.iad: > >> If Microsoft says that Win 7 will run just fine on 1 GB why don't they >> install it (instead of Starter Edition) on netbooks? >> >> Bob >> >> >> > > Do you need an answer to that question?.....(c;] > > Ah, I didn't think so..... > > -- > Larry > Yes I need an answer. Let me rephrase. Why do most of the netbooks come with a "crippled" version of Windows 7 when Microsoft says they are fully capable of running the standard, basic version they put in other, let's call them "economical" computers. Is it possibly a concession the computer manufacturers make to keep netbook prices low? To my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong) the "Starter" edition is found nowhere but on netbooks. Bob
From: Larry on 29 Oct 2009 16:58
"Bob Newman" <bobnewman(a)cox.net> wrote in news:Z6mGm.178$hJ2.106(a)newsfe13.iad: > > "Larry" <noone(a)home.com> wrote in message > news:Xns9CB313580A94Bnoonehomecom(a)74.209.131.13... >> "Bob Newman" <bobnewman(a)cox.net> wrote in news:cV4Gm.40366$cL1.12721 >> @newsfe20.iad: >> >>> If Microsoft says that Win 7 will run just fine on 1 GB why don't >>> they install it (instead of Starter Edition) on netbooks? >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> >>> >> >> Do you need an answer to that question?.....(c;] >> >> Ah, I didn't think so..... >> >> -- >> Larry >> > > Yes I need an answer. Let me rephrase. Why do most of the netbooks > come with a "crippled" version of Windows 7 when Microsoft says they > are fully capable of running the standard, basic version they put in > other, let's call them "economical" computers. Is it possibly a > concession the computer manufacturers make to keep netbook prices low? > To my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong) the "Starter" > edition is found nowhere but on netbooks. > > Bob > > > The obvious answer is to make the crippled version run at an acceptable speed on slower equipment with so little memory to run it on. The crippled version leaves a few hundred megabytes of RAM available for the user's apps, without which I suppose sales would soon be zero when the buyers wised up! The other possibility, of course, is to prevent netbooks from becoming a replacement for the laptop beasts that are so profitable. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the netbook runs anything off the internet not involving heavy computer, what 99% of it, just as fast as a superlaptop that costs 5 times as much and gobbles whatever battery you buy in an hour or so, rendering the beast pretty useless as a portable device away from AC power. The big laptops remind me of my luggable Compaq XT Portable that looked like a sewing machine and had to be plugged in for its miserable 90 watt power supply to run. $2,495.00 at Sears Business Center, Jacksonville, FL. I had to fight two university professors trying to steal it away from me....(c;] Sears only had 3, the total number of Compac portables in North Florida for months! The reason they're STILL only coming with 1GB is becoming more obvious, now that we've moved away from blaming Micro$oft that it was part of the deal for using XP, not Vista. 1GB will slow down the netbook and reduce these cheap computers' competition for much more expensive glitzy models that aren't selling well at all. After spending a couple of hours playing with a brand new, untouched Nokia 3G netbook with the little "Tiny Vista7", my name for the new netbook OS, not theirs, I'd tell everyone to treat the damned hobbled up thing like the PLAGUE! I'm reading too much about corporate control from RIAA, MPAA, bigtime corporate software houses, etc.....plus, in this case, Nokia's slavery to AT&T Wireless on the 2 year contract....YECCH! What are we, Crazy?! -- Larry |