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Windows 7 Lite set for netbooks?

Windows 7 has already impressed us with its slimmed down style and fast boot up times. But it looks as if it's about to make its way into the vast wor

Windows 7 has already impressed us with its slimmed down style and fast boot up times. But it looks as if it’s about to make its way into the vast world of netbooks too, with Microsoft inviting beta testers to try out a ‘specialised version’ of the OS.

The new version, already dubbed Windows 7 Lite, is said to be designed for machines running 1GB of RAM with a 1GHz processor. That’d be a netbook then.

Running Windows 7 on a small machine would certainly give the Big M the edge over the versions of Linux found in current netbooks, plus let them finally start phasing out Windows XP for good.

What do you think? Is Windows 7 Lite a good idea? Tell us what you think down below.

Via Electricpig

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