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No Windows XP for hybrid storage netbooks?

June 17, 2009 By Ade Magnaye

As we all know, Microsoft has been extending the life of Windows XP over and over again so that the underpowered netbook will have a cheap OS to run on. But of course Microsoft has imposed limitations.

To qualify for XP, the netbook must have:

  • 10 inch or smaller screen
  • 1GB or less of RAM
  • 160GB or smaller hard drive

So if you’ve got a netbook more powerful than the specs posted above, your netbook should have Vista pre-installed.

Now it seems that even hybrid storage netbooks are now banned from having Windows XP. According to Netbook Choice:

However, it appears that we won’t be getting too many more netbooks that employ similar systems if Microsoft gets its way. According to bit-tech, Microsoft is banning netbook manufacturers from producing hybrid storage netbooks, when using Windows XP Home.

If true, this seems to be an extension of Microsoft trying to separate low-end netbooks from more premium models by renaming the ‘netbook’ term.

Meh. I’ll wait for Windows 7.

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