I have not purchased a Netbook yet. I hear that some stores and
manufactures in the US will be offering a free Windows 7 Home Premium
upgrade on all XP and Vista computers sold between now and the final release
of Windows 7 is available. I know Dell and Best Buy were mentioned. It
sounds like the DVD will be mailed out automatically from the manufacturer
when released. Not sure how they can afford this with the small profit
margins on Netbooks. If you are buying before October 22, it can't hurt to
ask!
Don Marang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopher...@googlemail.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Questions regarding netbook computer,and windows
operating systems
Hi, for the moment, you are on your own to install and use Windows 7 RC.
RC stands for release candidate and is a prerelease version of the
product. On my machine I found it to be generally stable but is definitely
rough in some areas which will be fixed in time for the full release. This
won't be the case on all machines. However you are most likely going to be
fine with Windows 7 RC if you're using a Vista machine or a recent XP
machine, including netbooks. If you wish to use Windows 7 RC, buy a
netbook with XP. Partition the hard drive then you can create a dual boot
configuration, with XP and 7 RC. That way if something went wrong with 7
you can roll back to XP and safely delete your partition without affecting
the entire system. I'd also suggest creating a virtual environment so you
can test 7 without even affecting the physical environment. The problem is
I'm not sure how well virtualization products run on Netbooks. I expect
though that with 2GB of RAM it should run fine. 1GB might be too much
unless you assign the virtual machine's memory to no more than half the
size. Finally, you could just wait till Windows 7 is out then you should
start seeing netbooks with Windows 7 preloaded. Hope this all helps.
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Chris Hallsworth
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Cutolo" <acut...@nyc.rr.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Questions regarding netbook computer,and windows
operating systems
Hi Chris.
Thanks for the heads up on my question.
however, I need to ask one mor if I may. Do you think that I should
wait for the full release of windows 7 before purchasing the netbook? or
should I have them install the rc version of windows 7, and then later
on, have them install the full version of the program after windows 7 is
officially released too the public.
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