[pianotech] Beware of NetBooks and VISTA laptops

paul bruesch paul at bruesch.net
Thu Jun 18 13:20:39 MDT 2009


Pu-leeze, Duaine. That is olds (as opposed to news.)

And it's outdated information.

M$ has ditched the 3 app limit for Win7 Starter Edition.

Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Duaine & Laura Hechler
<dahechler at att.net>wrote:

> NetBooks originally came with Linux.
>
> In order for MS to compete, they decided to come out with a "entry
> level" Windows 7 (VISTA's follow-on). Which sounded good from the start
>
> HOWEVER
>
> in order to make it work, MS crippled the OS enough to allow - ONLY - 3
> - programs to run at the same time.
>
> -------------
>
> This may be a little late for some of you - but -
>
> If you have a laptop with VISTA on it - you may be locked into VISTA ONLY.
>
> One of my son's friends has a VISTA laptop and the hard drive crashed
> (from viruses). From all the horror stories, he really wanted to go back
> to XP. So my son tried to load XP - could not get it to even start to
> load. They called to manufacturer (HP ? ) and found out, OH!, that model
> laptop was designed for VISTA and VISTA ONLY.
>
> --
> Duaine Hechler
> Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ
> Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
> Reed Organ Society Member
> Florissant, MO 63034
> (314) 838-5587
> dahechler at att.net
> www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com
> --
> Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years
>
>
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