All Windows 7 Editions Will Run On Netbooks

Martin | Feb 08, 2009 | Comments

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There was some discussion about which editions of Windows 7 would run fine on netbooks lately after Microsoft’s announcement about the different Windows 7 editions. According to a statement by Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing, which was published at Arstechnica earlier today. According to his statement all editions of Windows 7 will run fine on netbooks although Windows 7 Starter and Windows 7 Home Premium have been designated for that market.

The low resource usage of the operating system – we mentioned earlier that it would run fine on 512 Megabytes of Ram computer systems – makes it an ideal installation for netbook installations unlike its predecessor Windows Vista. This essentially means that any version of Windows 7 will run fine on netbooks and that it is more a choice of the OEM manufacturer than anything else.

Another thing to remember is that it is possible to upgrade to another edition of Windows 7 at anytime. Users should still expect that most netbooks will ship with either Windows 7 Starter or Windows 7 Home Premium.

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About the Author: Martin Brinkmann is an Online Journalist from Germany who discovered his love for technology in high school. He is currently working as a freelancer for several publications and runs his own Internet website Ghacks

  • ben
    i have got windows 7 on my netbook and it runs great even better than xp one problem is that i found it to use 700mb of ram on idle other than that great
  • Windows 7 Beta will not install to a FAT-32 partition, only NTFS.  NTFS is a journaling filesystem, meaning it is constantly written to for book-keeping purposes.  Flash memory has a limited number of read/writes.  How long until Ben's netbook's compactflash ssd dies from being written to too many times?  Will Windows 7 Final support FAT-32 or some other non-journaling filesystem so as not to murder compactflash cards in netbooks with countless journal-writes?
  • FaRReR
    What makes you think that all netbooks have flash memory? Some have actual hard drives, you know...
  • FaRReR
    Windows 7 runs much faster than XP on my 2GB, 1.6GHz Atom Eee PC. It's so cool, I'm actually gonna get rid of XP.
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