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Windows 7 Light Enough for Netbooks, Lenovo S10 Specifically
October 28th, 2008 by Avram Piltch
At the PDC conference just now, Microsoft’ s SVP of Windows and Windows Live Steven Sinofsky was talking about how much less memory Windows 7 ($74.99) uses. As an example, he pulled out a netbook, and said that this is the notebook he’s using right now, that it has only 1GB of RAM, and that the Windows 7 system only uses half of it.
To be fair, Microsoft has not officially stated that Windows 7 will run on netbooks. At a press briefing on Sunday, Sinofsky and other members of the Windows team said they had not yet set minimum specs for Windows 7 so they wouldn’t guarantee it would work on the small systems. But when the head of the Windows team whips one out and says this is the laptop he’s using now with Windows 7, you have to believe Atom-based systems work well with the new OS.
What netbook was it? From the hinge and shape it appears to be a Lenovo S10 ($349.97). I wonder how he likes it. Our intent is to install the pre-beta of Windows 7 on a bunch of netbooks to see how well it runs, as soon as we can get our hands on it.
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October 28th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I love this kind of stuff. Gets me going a little.
Great post. Thanks. 8^)
October 30th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Great Netbooks!!!
January 5th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Irun also windows 7 on my lenovo and it runs great i upgrade to 2gb ram but runs almost the same as with 1gb runs smooth like it both lenovo s9 and win7 great