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    UMID M2 Gets Faster, Cheaper: Windows 7, 1GB RAM for $500

    OQO Shuts Down Repairs, Discontinues Phone Lines

    Windows 7 Comfortably Scales to 600MHz, 512MB UMPC

    What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    02/02/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Comfortably Scales to 600MHz, 512MB UMPC
    This Win7 stuff has me excited!

    Looks like me might have a real winner here!


    I haven't played with it yet, but my bro and I are building identical gaming rigs and one way I thought to save a little money temporarily was to run the Win7 64 beta until we can afford to buy it outright.


    Keep bringing the Win7 news, Gizmodo!

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    Image of TBM-Fan TBM-Fan
    02/02/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Comfortably Scales to 600MHz, 512MB UMPC
    What is reasonable?

    Like a WinXP with a 450MHz processor and 128MB of RAM?
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    02/02/09

    @TBM-Fan: Reasonable and minimum are not the same thing. Microsoft says minimum (for the beta - could change) is:
    1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
    1 GB of system memory
    Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)
    [www.microsoft.com]
    But obviously that's not the minimum that can handle it.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/02/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Comfortably Scales to 600MHz, 512MB UMPC
    Apple's certainly getting some major competition here. So far it's looking as though the Vista jabs will not be effective at all towards 7, which is getting a great deal more hooplah and is getting lots of real-world testing. 10.6 seems to work OK, but there's nothing significantly different between it and 10.5. Hopefully this forces Apple to up their game a bit, because as much as I like Leopard, there are things I wouldn't mind seeing changed (and maybe some tiny changes, like more options for the dock aesthetic).
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    Image of Tim Reid Tim Reid
    02/02/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Comfortably Scales to 600MHz, 512MB UMPC
    "In the end, Windows 7 might have call for effective minimum specifications closer to XP's than Vista's." Maybe closer to XP, but still nowhere close. I remember running XP with 128MB of RAM.


    XP will live forever, no matter what M$ tries to do.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/02/09

    @Tim Reid: The reason it will live forever is because there's lots and lots of businesses that refuse to upgrade, much like the firm I work for. As it's looking, people have grown way too comfortable with this well-over-a-decade long legacy support for aging software that should've died years ago.


    When I started getting back into the Mac ecosystem, it was sort of jarring to sometimes come across applications that suddenly were incompatible in one point upgrade, such as Handbrake, for example. Version 0.9.3 is incompatible with Tiger.

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    Image of HexiumVII HexiumVII
    02/02/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Comfortably Scales to 600MHz, 512MB UMPC
    Just make sure you have a decent video card. I've tried 7 on a multitude of systems. I've found processor speed doesn't nearly matter as much as the video. Even in 2D it can chug wit Intel 845/865 graphics. Also anything below a 6600 with aero is very slow. 6100 is very chunky no matter what drive, and 5x and 4 series geforce drivers don't even wanna work. G35+ intel graphics do amazingly decent in aero though. Vista generally likes dual core a lot, with slow celerons, i find CPU shoots to 100% a lot. Over great with anything post P4. Works about twice as fast as vista and all "capable" systems.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/02/09

    @HexiumVII: I think it's a little too early to be tossing statements such as "make sure you have" or "it won't work with X" into the ring.


    Win7 is still in beta and the sheer volume of hardware and drivers yet to be optimized means there will still be lots of hiccups in performance depending on the combination of hardware you might have. Win7 is running extremely well on my little Toshiba U305 with all the goodies turned on; Intel even had a beta video driver for Win7, available through Windows Update.


    The fact that Win7 will run comfortably at all on "low end" hardware is a fantastic sign of things to come with this new iteration of Windows. I hope the development community is taking notice and working on optimized drivers so that the rollout is smooth. It would be nice to have a single OS that could run on everything from your UMPC to your desktop. Certainly it will make migration and synching easier.

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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    02/02/09

    @HexiumVII: Not true. I got fast speeds and Aero with a double-gipmed ATI card. The card is an ATI 2600XT. Gimped once by 8X AGP interface. Gimped 2nd time by 4X AGP slot.
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    Image of emg72 emg72
    12/25/08

    In reply to What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?
    Groinwarmer.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    12/25/08

    In reply to What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?
    Boba Fettbook
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    12/24/08

    In reply to What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?
    I'm still going for WebTV 2.0
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/24/08

    In reply to What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?
    Let's call it Newton.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/24/08

    In reply to What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?
    Angelina Jolie, unless that's also already taken.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/24/08

    In reply to What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?
    Scrote-books
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/24/08

    @nutbastard: Don't blame me i voted for Ron Paul edition: lol!
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/24/08

    In reply to What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?
    Craptops.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    12/24/08

    In reply to What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?
    SteveDave's?
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    12/24/08

    In reply to What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?
    How about: iPod
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    Image of Smurfette's dropkick Smurfette's dropkick
    12/25/08

    @Serolf Divad: how about iPood?
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    12/25/08

    @p3713:


    iPoodle?

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/24/08

    In reply to What Do You Think the New Term For "Netbook" Should Be?
    Micro-LTX portable computers.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/24/08

    @FuzzyPlushroom: Or maybe "Pico", with the 12" class being "Micro".


    My aircraft-carrier Inspiron is probably "extended LTX".

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