Choosing The Best OS For A Netbook
The true position for netbooks today is essentially as secondary computing devices for those who are traveling and don’t want to carry bulky devices, particularly if they want to use it just for accessing the Net or some digital content such as pictures, songs, video, presentations, files, etc. These devices with the latest technology are more or less identical in performance as they run on the Intel Atom processor, predominantly 1.66 GHz with 1GB of RAM and 160GB of hard disk, but this is some of the major generalization in Netbooks and there is some more aspect which can make the difference while choosing a netbook or while upgrading/customizing it. And that is its OS. We cannot upgrade components which go inside the box (most of the netbooks that are presently available in the market had an opinion to upgrade the RAM, and if even they had one, it was just one slot with the installed RAM). However, we can go ahead and change the OS to get both, better performance and better look and feel in a netbook
What are the options then?
Today predominantly all netbooks come loaded with Windows XP. And in case of Linux, mostly it’s any plain vanilla Linux distro which ships with the box. You can stick with Windows XP in your netbook and can get a decent performance, but Win XP is reaching its end of life and can be discontinued very soon. So, what to do now? One option could be to upgrade to the upcoming Microsoft Windows 7. Yes! You read it right, unlike Windows Vista, Windows 7 runs pretty well on a netbook. This OS not only gives a beautiful look to your netbook but also makes it pretty secure and of course will have a longer life. The other contender for your netbook could be a Linux distro. But it shouldn’t be any standard Linux distro, and most of them are big in size, and run so many applications, most of which are completely unnecessary for a netbook. You can select any of your favorite distro and tune it up by turning off most of the services. But if playing with Linux internals is not your cup of tea, because it’s not too easy to install software and all in Linux as compare to XP then you should select a distro from some of the customized Linux distros specifically designed for netbook.
Windows XP
Most netbooks are preinstalled with Win XP so the direct benefit you get here is that the drivers for Win XP will be natively available from the vendor and you don’t have to hunt for any. But the drawback as we see in the Win XP is not that much secured than the Microsoft vista, if we compare both. The other problem is that, if you don’t get it pre-installed, installing it could be a challenge, as it doesn’t have a USB installed option natively and netbooks don’t come with optical media drives. And the other thing which can be considered as a drawback is its static look. After the arrival of Windows Vista Aero and Compiz in Linux, we are all too fond of animated desktop environment. Not just because it gives us something to flaunt but also because some of these features actually enhance productivity.
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