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Windows 7, SSD Netbooks, UMPCs

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Windows 7 A couple of more ultraportables have had Microsoft Windows 7 pre-beta installed on them, with information / benchmarks listed.

UMPC Fever has a forum member who installed Windows 7 on a Fujitsu U2010, which worked great, from the included screenshots. They were able to use Vista drivers, and it was supported better than XP. They mentioned it was faster than Vista.

Ultramobile PC Tips had news of another forum user on a Spanish-language site who had installed Windows 7 on a Gigabyte UMPC U60. They reported that it booted faster than Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (SP3) and runs just about as fast overall. It also had no problems with the U60’s WiFi (Vista did). (via SlashGear)

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Apple: Netbooks, Sales, Presidents

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Electronista mentions a report by ChangeWave that says the iPhone and MacBook lineup put Apple in a better position to survive any drops in spending over the coming holidays, given the current economic client. ChangeWave makes the claim that 33% of studied notebook buyers in … Read more

More on AMD’s Netbook CPU Plans

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Back in July, we mentioned that AMD was planning on competing with Intel’s Atom CPU for netbooks. This after having criticized netbooks in the past. AMD is apparently going to be announcing a new CPU aimed squared at Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and netbooks, with … Read more

Netbook Gathering (Eee-PC.de)

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Last week, there was a gathering in Cologne, Germany, of netbook owners. When all was said and done, there were around two dozen different netbooks. You can find photos below – a few enterprising netbook owners built a couple of towers out of the netbooks … Read more

Netbooks a “Headache” for Microsoft

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Netbooks have apparently caused Microsoft some concern, for a couple of reasons. Number one of course, they are introducing a lot of people to Linux, since up to 30% of netbooks currently shipping are shipping with some form of Linux. The second reason, they have … Read more