Table of Content
It all depends on how the “3 applications” are counted. If five browser windows count as one application, that would probably be OK. How about Task Manager to kill stuck browser Windows. With Vista, they’re clueless, and nobody has even heard of Windows 7 yet.
The Windows Home Premium DVD will guide you through the process. Just be sure to backup all your files or they'll be gone for good. Lots of people bought Windows 7 Starter because it just made sense for them at the time. You make it seem like no one has a Windows 7 Starter netbook when there are millions of them out there. $50 sounds pretty steep to me considering it’s possible to get a legit full copy, not upgrade, of 7 Pro for $19 or 7 ultimate $25 if you know how to use a search engine. And I upgraded 2 of them from Starter to Windows 7 Home Premium and the other 2 from Starter to Windows 7 Professional.
Upgrade your netbook to Windows Home 7 Premium for $50 starting next week
There will be a group of laptop users who will defect, who use the laptop like a millstone and would prefer something far more portable. Add extra battery life to that and less drudgery and you will find 10-20% of laptop users seriously considering one. Offer me WIndows XP Home or Windows 7 Starter, and let me upgrade to Home Premium or one of the other versions if I want to at a later time. Kubuntu Jaunty Jakalope, currently still in aplha pre-release state, already works very nicely indeed on netbooks. The more I read about Win 7 SE on current netbooks, the more I think it’s an utter waste of time.
Download the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor , and install as normal. How about upgrading from XP to 7 will this work for that as well? I have seen some post which state that you can use the upgrade to do a complete install.
Contribute via PayPal
Just open the Start menu, type Anytime, and click the WAU link in the list. In the Windows Anytime Upgrade window, follow the links to go online and purchase the upgrade. Once you enter your new product key in to the WAU window, you’re done. All the features of Windows 7 Home Premium are yours.
You can watch video on it...medium quality, if full screened it will skip. Windows 7 Startup native works great...but I have a feeling the additions of Home Premium will kill the netbook...way too much. In short - if you want a portable media centre you can forget about using a Netbook.
Microsoft: All Windows 7 Editions to Run on Netbooks
But $450 might seem like too much money for essentially the same computer. If you have Linux installed, search the Internet to see whether your particular flavor of Linux can peacefully coexist with Windows 7. In many cases, you can use the GRUB menu to set up a dual boot.
Wikipedia has a good breakdown of all the Windows 7 features you’re missing if you get a netbook with Windows 7 Starter. Windows 7 Starter is a limited-functionality version of the OS that will be available worldwide but only as a pre-install by OEMs . This expansion of its availability — Vista Starter was only available in emerging markets — led one blogger to surmise that Windows 7 Starter is the version Microsoft will push for the netbook market. Microsoft Tuesday unveiled a plan to release six editions of Windows 7 and said all of them will run on a range of hardware, including netbooks. I'm wondering if it would hurt upgrading to home premium on it.
New netbooks usually have Windows 7 Starter edition preinstalled, but older netbooks will be running Linux or Windows XP Home Basic . The upgrade procedure will vary depending on your current software. \nThe next step is to look at your existing software. I mainly did it because I was annoyed with the limitations of the starter edition. No issues and didnt notice any changes in battery life really.
For example,on Windows 7 Starter,you cannot create a Homegroup,only join one. And you cannot change the desktop wallpaper, unless you install third party software. And there is no Windows Media Centre on Starter edition. You probably won't be using it for mobile entertainment. I have a Netbook Lenovo S10-2, it comes with the standard atom processor. Almost all Netbooks are configured relatively similarly.
Of course, I went with the upgraded one, but the surprising thing was for all that, it only cost $100 more. My point is that the price point between Windows 7 Starter and Home Premium on at least this netbook isn’t nearly as bad as I anticipated, especially since it was bundled with extra power and space. Is there a chance you can return your new computer?
A full version of Linux on a netbook (KDE 4.2 in particular) will absolutely outshine any version of Windows 7, and especially Windows 7 starter. It is not true that windows 7 starter can only run 3 applications a once, in afct it can run up to 10 and even more applications at once. I’ve been faffing about with Starter for days and keep discovering new ommissions and abominations. Word is useless – spellcheck locked in US English and stripped down to the bare bones – and a permanent advert for the full verion takes up one third of the screen space.
Notice that all of our pinned programs and desktop icons are still there, as well as our taskbar customization . Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods. Of course, if all you want to do is change your desktop background, there are ways around Windows 7 Starter’s limitations. But if you need some of the other features that only come with higher end versions of the OS, you might want to snag an upgrade license in the next few weeks.
No comments:
Post a Comment