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"You can't put the cheap version of Windows on a device with a large SSD" Why not? (BTW I don't know how to quote properly on HN, little help!)
by tocomment 17y ago
"You can't put the cheap version of Windows on a device with a large SSD"
Why not?
(BTW I don't know how to quote properly on HN, little help!)
- 10ren 17y agoThere isn't proper quoting on HN, but three popular conventions are: 1. italics - to this with asterisks ( * ). To operate, they must be adjacent to the text that is being quoted, and end up looking like this. If not adjacent, you get * this * 2. Use ">" and indentation, like in email. 3. use quotes - like you did. nb: there is help page available for the above syntax: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc It used to be available as a link next to the textarea when you comment, but I just checked and it appears to be gone. You might want to check out the FAQ in general if you're new (read: I strongly suggest you check out the FAQ): http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (there's a link to it at the bottom of the frontpage; I'm being extra helpful by repeating it here)
- tome 17y agoPresumably Microsoft won't allow it. To make Windows competitive they have a discount for OEMs to install Windows on machines with low spec, and presumably this SSD is too large to be able to take advantage of that.
- notauser 17y agoThis is correct. The limit appears to be 16gb to qualify for the (very large) discount. http://www.itexaminer.com/microsoft-adds-to-atoms-restrictions.aspx http://www.itexaminer.com/microsoft-adds-to-atoms-restrictio... Supposedly the Win 7 license has no such restriction.