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MS killed the netbook not Apple. They did this by inducing OEMs to make more powerful (expensive) machines that would run XP. XP didn't work on the first eeep
by lifeguard 14y ago
MS killed the netbook not Apple. They did this by inducing OEMs to make more powerful (expensive) machines that would run XP. XP didn't work on the first eeepc, for example.
- hollerith 14y ago>XP didn't work on the first eeepc, for example. I always thought that XP would have run fine on the first eeepc and that Linux was chosen to keep the retail price down. XP became the most common OS on netbooks after Microsoft introduced a special netbook-only lower price for XP.
- lifeguard 14y agoFrom wikipedia: "Newer models added the options of Microsoft Windows operating system, rotating media hard disk drives (HDD) and initially retailed for up to 500 euros."
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