Notebooks to lean towards Windows 7
Over the last few years notebooks have dropped in price and becoming more popular than desktop PC’s. All the main players in the notebook market (Dell, HP, Compaq, MSI and so on) are gearing up to push sales by including Windows 7 with most notebooks.
Microsoft have confirmed that all Windows 7 SKU’s will run on notebooks / laptops, most laptops these days are Atom based systems, so this comes as good news however the notebook market is flooded with options and new notebook manufactures are popping up daily, the notebook market is very competitive and most options & specs remain the same across the board in terms of price range, In theory the lowest price usually wins out.
If your in the market for a notebook / laptop in the coming months please take note of the version of Windows 7 included, past trends have shown that these manafactures will include the cheapest SKU of windows and if this is the case with upcoming notebooks that come installed with Windows 7 then the version included is likley to be the Aero-less “Windows 7 Starter Edition” so you may end up paying for a laptop with great specs / hardware but the Windows 7 starter edition will not be able to produce much eyecandy (Aero Glass) and wont help get the most out of your purchase. Just make sure you get an understanding of the Windows 7 SKU’s before getting sucked into a “Great Deal” that might come back to bite you on the behind.
We will cover all the Windows 7 SKU’s in the coming weeks.
Tags: Windows 7 laptop, Windows 7 Notebooks
Almost thought you meant Netbook instead of Notebook, considering the “Compact”/Compaq slipup, but it appears not.
When would anyone get the impression that laptops _wouldn’t_ end up with Win7 on them? Of course they will, that’s the entire market for Win7 and they’ll probably be the first to get it. I can’t even see MS putting “starter edition” on the US market anyway, except strictly in netbooks. We don’t even see Vistaids Home Basic on any computers today (thank god) because MS – or the manufacturers – seems to have learned their lesson early on. I’m thinking they’re not going to repeat the same mistake by putting a stripped Windows on laptops, even despite the price difference…