of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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This is really dumb.
Of course Apple lets you run as many Apps as you want out of the box. PC's will let you do the same with 7.
This is just for netbooks. Apple does not have a netbook. So of course it is BS. Microsoft is just trying to keep the OS running fast and smooth by limiting 3 programs at a time.
OS X would slow down just as much as 7 if you try and run 15 different things on a netbook.
This is a lame attempt to take a shot at 7.
Everyone of the commercials is just a lame shot at Windows, but just to clear things up the 3 limit is because of price not performance. The OEM version of starter is like 10 dollars instead of one hundred something.
@Adam (the other one)
while this may be an undeserved slight (due to the fact that apple has not made a netbook), from microsoft's point of view has nothing to do with limiting resource use for netbooks.
Microsoft wants people to use Windows 7 on their netbooks and is proud of how well it runs (even with multiple programs). They are simply pricing the limited starter version at a price that is extremely cheap. that way consumers won't really want to choose linux over windows because the price difference will be negligible. Ultimately, people will want to erase those limitations and, and in the end, might pay to do so.
It has everything to do with allowing netbook makers to produce a product with a low pricepoint (nearly equal to that of the same netbook with linux), and eventually expect some percent to pay microsoft to unlock more features. It DOES NOT have to do that much with limiting resource use by restricting to 3 programs.
your reasoning = flawed.
It isn't even just for netbooks; netbooks can run any edition of Windows 7. I have seen ultimate running on a few netbooks and it works fine. It's doesn't make the machine a power-house, but it's usable as anything.
The magical 3 application limit is not there to "keep the OS running fast and smooth." It is there to create a magical feature divider. And while I understand you can run any Windows 7 flavor you feel like on a netbook, don't expect to see them on sale with anything but starter edition. This leads to millions of people using starter edition out of ignorance and a plethora of complaints about the 3 application limit. Microsoft seems to forget that while some extra cash may be made by the starter version they will quickly lose it with bad PR.
FTR, OSX runs very nicely indeed on standard netbook hardware.
thats BS - you can run a decent OS on a netbook. I've got Kubuntu 9.04 on my eeepc901 right now, and am usually running;
Pidgin, Firefox, Thunderbird, a text editor, handful of widgets, and occasionally a media player without significant slow down.
The problem with this is that they clearly aim for the upsell. Here, have a netbook with WINDOWS on it... oh you want to listen to music while you surf/im/email? That'll be $100 for the next OS up. These computers aren't as underpowered as they want you to think.
Like you said, it isn't a Mac V. PC thing at all, as there is no Mac netbook. Microsoft is wrong all on it's own here, without needing to be compared to Macs.
You guys didn't read the article did you? Starter Edition being for Netbooks is a misconception! Starter is probably more for things like MID's and other mini portable computers with extremely limited CPU power AS WELL as a sensitive price point. If a PC maker wants to put Starter on a computer, sure, they will, but it's not like you'll ever buy something with it right? Heck, you'll probably never see it in the wild with your own eyes anyways, so why do you care?
@deetsnai - I dont think you are right about that. On the $300 models possibly, but netbooks have come a long way in a short time, and $300 is no longer the necessary price point anymore. A netbook is now anything with an 10" or smaller screen and an intel Atom processor, but as Sony has shown (and to a lesser extent, most other manufacturers) that doesn't mean $300. The OEM cost for a full version of Windows is around $50, so there is only about a $40 price difference to them. Unless they are competing on the rock bottom price, they don't have much reason not to go with a real version of 7.
@ToasT - no, OS X runs on Netbooks, but not very nicely. 1 gig of ram is as much a "bare minimum" requirement for it as it is for Vista. Go read some of the writeups of the hacintosh Dell Mini 10s and similar machines and you will quickly be educated that OS X is a little too resource intensive, even with all of the pointless visual effects turned off.
Dude, could you be more of a shill?
Pathetic. Buried as spam.