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| by Stan Beer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Friday, 01 May 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Page 2 of 3 According to Ms Vaughan, Windows
7 Starter Edition, which limits the user to running three concurrent
applications with no aero interface, is aimed at entry level netbooks.
But there is no explanation as to how a merely hobbled version of
Windows 7, which has a 10 GB footprint, can be made to run on an entry
level netbook with say 512MB of RAM and 8GB SSDFeatured Whitepaper
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"The differentiator between Home Premium and Starter Edition it really came down to features and capability. However, from a performance point of view it's limited to only having 3 applications running at the same time and from a performance point of view 512 MB is......" That suggests that Microsoft is sort of saying that Starter Edition because of its severe limitations will be sort of OK for entry level netbooks provided, as Ms Vaughan confirmed, they have at least 16 GB of disk storage. However, from past experience knowing that whatever "minimum specs" Microsoft states for an operating systems needs to be substantially boosted - doubled in the case of memory - what are we to make of the minimum specs below?
For a start, let's compare them to the "minimum specs" for Vista:
To even the untrained eye, there is a remarkable similarity between the Vista and Windows 7 "minimum specs". In fact, they're almost identical. Furthermore, everyone and their dogs know that if you tried to run Vista on a computer with the above specs you would probably take a hammer to the device in frustration. Will the same be true of Windows 7? CONTINUED Page 3 |
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