First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook

davidmwilliams sends in his IT Wire review of how Windows 7RC1 performs on an Acer Aspire One netbook. Summing up: it runs, it won't win any speed competitions, you won't want to play Crysis on it, and it's pretty OK for light-duty, everyday tasks. In related news, several readers have noted that Windows 7 RC1 is now available; one anonymous reader notes "This time, Microsoft was smart not to limit the time that it's available or the number of keys. It will be up for download until July, so there's lots of time to grab a copy."

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Worth a try

[cusco]

Let's see how long until I can force it to crash, and then I can complain about it!

Re:At the risk of being redundant

[dmmiller2k]

My vintage 2000 500MHz P-III, fully maxed out with 384MB of RAM ran Win98 for years, was later upgraded to Win98SE, then upgraded again to XP-Pro SP3, recently.

(I know, I know, you should ALWAYS install new and NEVER upgrade, but I have licensed software on it for which I no longer have install media or keys, and heck, it worked.)

Anyway it runs Firefox and Office 2003 just fine, if slowly.

When my kids misbehave, they have to use it instead of the regular machine to do their homework for an appropriate period of time.

When they REALLY misbehave, I disable MS Office (by changing the ACL on the install directory) and force them to run OpenOffice (with Java enabled) on it.

Works great. They RARELY misbehave anymore.