A Peek at Windows 7 Starter's 3 App Cap

[judeh101]

instead of making the "starter" edition so stupidly, why not make starter edition for starters instead of putting limitations? like people who doesn't use the computer, n00bs, automatically does everything for you. They should make some greetings to the OS as well, tour, many more.

 

[Guest]

Seriously, I have never seen so much misinformation in quite a while.

The Windows 7 Starter Edition will be available only on developing countries (or the so called third world countries). You won't find the Win7 starter edition on the US or any other developed country. The netbooks that will use this OS will probably sell for $100 or less so the 3 apps at the same time make sense since this netbooks won't have the same capabilities as a netbook sold in the US. A netbook with a 1.6ghz cpu and 1gb of ram will probably be a beast compared to the CPU+ RAM the netbooks using this version of win7 will have.

 

[Kary]

[citation][nom]g-thor[/nom]I haven't used a netbook, so I have to ask the question. Are netbook users really going to be running an e-mail client, a web browser, a word processor and, say, a photo editing program all at the same time? on a 1 or 2 GB Atom processor? On a 9 inch screen?[/citation]

Well, I have a 733Mhz 512MB desktop computer that runs P2P, Firefox (3 tabs usually), Trillian (IM), and a News Reader the majority of the time...I had considered getting a NetTop and hooking it up to the monitor to save electricity since that computer runs 24/7. I'm not saying most people WOULD do this, but it's definitely doable

 

[miltoxbeyond]

OSX can run on netbooks...there are guides for it on the web

 

[dainsane1]

somehow i think this whole win starter thing will blow up

i'm figuring there will be a hack to bypass the app limit. likely before any crippled netbooks are even shipped
hell i would make the hack myself if i knew how; unfortunately i know nothing about hacking software.