I heard Paul Thurott on Windows Weekly say that Steve Sinosky uses a Netbook for his day to day Windows 7 machine. So I guess that must be a criteria for the OS.

Yes, I enabled the unlocked features this morning and have been playing with the new taskbar features. More to follow…

Did you run the hack to enable the new start bar?

I’m looking forward to WINDOWS 7, I was using the HP 2133 running Vista Basic and was surprised how well it worked. I’m still waiting for the best keyboard and a faster Atom processor.
I gave up on Macs largely because of the poor hard drive access on y old Powerbook. Now I hate the new screens. Frankly Vista is fine for me I don’t miss OSX at all. 7 looks even better.

I’m also thinking that MS will kill XP when Win7 is released, but I’m certain the netbooks that will be shipping by the time Win7 is out will have a next-gen Atom/chipset inside that will handle the OS better.

That’s not to say you need to be a VP to tell where this is all headed. Without the XP restrictions, you would already have a netbook today with a 1280 screen, 2GB ram and up to 500GB hard drive. The C7-M CPU on the 2133 mininote runs 720p video flawlessly, and can be ordered with draft-n wireless.

While today’s netbooks may indeed be limited in use and function as just a simple notebook, I’m fairly certain that tomorrow’s netbooks will have the bells and whistles you find in a C2D notebook today – 64-bit CPU/OS, 4GB ram, 1280 screen and large/fast storage.

If a great notebook can replace a desktop, there’s no reason why a great netbook cannot replace a notebook.

Microsoft will kill XP when Win 7 comes out. Therefore nutbooks need to step up its bye-bye. Looks like AMD is getting into the game. Look at the notebooks.com site. AMD veep talks what he wants to see in a netbook. He calls them “mini-notebook.” Sign of things to come?

Here: http://www.notebooks.com/2008/10/30/my-perfect-mini-notebook/

Why such eagerness to try Windows 7 on an netbook? it hardly seems worth it, is not like one would gain any advantage whatsoever from doing so…other than killing time waitng for the economy to improve, that is.

I have been wondering whether people who buy XP-installed netbooks now will be able to install Windows 7 when it becomes available, and whether they can expect to see an improvement or a deterioration of performance.

I have Windows 7 working on my Q1, but the sound is not working

Interesting. My 6801 Win 7 VMware Fusion 2.0 VM is using 7.3GB and 350MB out of the 1GB I gave it.

I have high hopes for windows 7. I may switch to mac when my current pc kicks the bucket just because Vista is that frustrating. If 7 ends up being more of the same then that will seal the deal for me.