Choosing the Best OS for a Netbook

摘要

The true position for netbooks today is essentially as secondary computing devices for those who are travelling 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 are more or less rnidentical in performance as they run on the Intel Atom processor, predominantly 1.66 GHz with 1GB of RAM and 160 GB of hard disk. We have made this generalization because majority of the netbooks we received this time for the shootout had these specs. But there is one more aspect which can make the difference while choosing a netbook or while upgrading/customizing it. And that is its OS. We can't upgrade components which go inside the box (most of the netbooks we received didn't even had an option 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.