No netbook should be running Vista. Period. Exclamation point. Dell Mini 9 smashed repeatedly into the bridge of Steve Ballmer’s nose. And that even goes for the beefy-for-a-netbook-but-don’t-call-it-a-netbook Sony Vaio P.
Luckily, the process of downgrading the Vaio P’s built-in Vista install is relatively simple, with the only casualties being volume and mute buttons that no longer work. A small price to pay for not running Vista.
replacing vista with xp on the vaio p [Pocketables via Hack-A-Day]
I’ve installed the Win7 beta on my old laptop (1.6 GHz dual-core, 1GB RAM, integrated graphics, tablet) and it works quite well. Better than XP, especially in terms of networking — except that Explorer hangs with alarming regularity. Not quite ready for prime time. I don’t think I’d trust it for my main computer just yet.
Windows 7 is still a “protected path” OS. I don’t buy computers so they can prevent me from doing what the law allows, but the RIAA/MPAA do not.
With all the good reports about it I’m surprised they didn’t just do Win7?
The hardware is certainly up to it.
From what I’ve heard from a friend, installing XP means you lose the GPS and WWAN capabilities as well unless you go through some PITA process to extract the drivers.