http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/ Engadget Comments for Nokia Booklet 3G running Windows 7 Starter unwrapped at Best Buy http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate on a Dell Mini 10. It's not as powerful as this netbook and runs just fine. I'm even able to run it with Aero, although obviously there's performance degradation there. There's no excuse for a stripped Windows 7.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Since when was changing the wallpaper a resource hogging process? The beta of Windows 7 Ultimate runs absolutely fine on my EEE PC with 1GB of RAM; there's nothing to worry about at all apart from Microsoft's stupidity to repeat the whole Vista Basic disaster like last time.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Since when was changing the wallpaper a resource hogging process?

The beta of Windows 7 Ultimate runs absolutely fine on my EEE PC with 1GB of RAM; there's nothing to worry about at all apart from Microsoft's stupidity to repeat the whole Vista Basic disaster like last time.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
I guess you do bring up a good point. I have a Compaq Presario c500 with a Celeron (1.73 GHz) processor, GMA 950 graphics, and 1 GB of RAM running 7 Ultimate. It seems to be just fine with Aero for the most part, but, of course, there are times when I feel like it's almost struggling to keep up with Aero Peek and 7's transparencies. Thanks for letting me know about your experience though, as I'm thinking about buying the Dell Mini 10.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
So theres no excuse for this premium netbook to run windows 7 starter which is more limited than XP example you cant even change the desktop background image! etc]]>Oct 23rd 2009 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
If you plan on getting a netbook, I would hold fire until the ION based chip-sets are more prevalent. Then Aero and hi-def video can be offset to the GPU rather than the underpowered Atom]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dncwfa1&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19]]>Oct 23rd 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/They probably figure the background thing will be so annoying that after a while people will do the real time upgrade to home premium for $80. ka-ching]]>Oct 23rd 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
Nokia has been like that, always.

sources about price: http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/update-nokia-booklet-3g-will-sell-for-us800/]]>Oct 25th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
I'm running Ultimate on my netbook with Aero enabled and all that kind of stuff and it still runs faster than XP did.

This is going to work against them, alot of people who get introduced to Windows 7 via the Starter is going to leave a bad taste in their mouth.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
My netbook has 1GB of soldered on RAM...runs W7 Ultimate like a champ.

I think people should try USING the things they choose to comment on first. You only make yourself seem really uninformed.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
I guess my HP laptop running W7 Ultimate with 2 GB of RAM really sux then coz the meter is showing that it's using 40% RAM.

Why can't one post a comment on this site w/o someone else ripping them a new asshole or making them feel like they are really stupid? Guess I'll just keep to myself next time and just read... thanks for letting me know that it works on your netbook...]]>Oct 23rd 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
I'd love to see just the one version of Windows tbh, but given MS makes its money from software and not hardware then I'm afraid we're doomed to have this situation. ]]>Oct 23rd 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
Windows uses more memory if it is available. If you have a lot of RAM, then some of the cache and page file is stored on the RAM itself, but if you have very little, most of the page file is moved to the HDD, which allows for the optimal performance for every variation.

For example, with 3GB RAM, I disabled page file, and my RAM usage runs up to 1GB upon start up.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
No one is trying to rip you a new one, but you did comment where it seemed you didn't fully understand. RAM isn't a finite commodity. If you have 2GB RAM, you'll always have 2GB...use it! The OS will use what it needs or more. It's probably your fancy RAM meter that's eating your memory! I remember on XP my meter was a Yahoo! widget and the irony was the 50% I was using up was almost all the meter itself! ]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
Anyone buying it should be beaten.]]>Oct 25th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
I don't know exactly the difference between the cost to OEMs of Starter vs normal, maybe it is less than the cost to users of upgrading, but it will certainly be large. Remember, Starter (and the netbook-specific XP pricing before it) were designed to (and did) kill Linux on netbooks. This wasn't necessary because manufacturers thought Linux was a fantastic OS and wanted to offer users more choice, etc. It was only necessary because the cost of a full XP (and now W7) license was way more than reasonable out of a $400 netbook budget. Reduce it to the $30 range? Problem solved. In the few cases where companies still offer a Linux version of their netbooks, they don't even bother to charge less.

Of course, this particular netbook has er... less of an excuse in price terms...]]>Oct 23rd 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
Manufacturers can load on a super-cheap nearly worthless version that they know nobody wants, and then when the user gets frustrated with it, it has a built-in feature for an in-place upgrade to a real OS if you're willing to shell out the cash.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
Surely there must be a way to change the wallpaper, via a registry edit, or simply replace the MS background file with your photo of choice renamed. I give it a week before there is an app to change the wallpaper.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/10-12 Battery life(16-cell lithium-polymer battery)

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR interface
Easily link with other Bluetooth-enabled devices, such as a mobile phone or MP3 player.

GPS and A-GPS
Combine with Ovi Maps to help you find your way quickly and accurately


Built-in 3G modem

Built in E Reader

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9575907&st=Nokia+Booklet+3G&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1218129406369

$399 with 2 year AT&T Contract
$599 without contract
]]>Oct 23rd 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/
its going to cost you $149 for a modem on a 2yr contract with the
$60/month plan just to be able to plug the modem in to your existing
laptop. for some people the netbook may actually be faster than their
old laptop. for other people, maybe they would like something more
portable than their 17" 10-key 5lb laptop with a modem hanging out
the side of it. for either of those groups, they have the option to
get this premium netbook for only $149 more than what a modem alone
will cost them.

a lot of people are arguing back and forth about whether or not this
is really premium. the way i look at it, its better than other
netbooks that att is selling for more money.

oh and for the people complaining that it doesnt make phone calls...
call customer service and tell them to change the netbook price plan
to an add-on line for your family plan for only $9.99 per month. they
can put the required $60 data service as a "bolt-on feature" instead
of making it the plan itself. now u have ur booklet 3g, data, and can
use the ovi software to make/rcv calls within your family plan
minutes. :D
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Get Linux, Windows 7 is still Windows...]]>Oct 23rd 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/Oct 23rd 2009 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/nokia-booklet-3g-running-windows-7-starter-unwrapped-at-best-buy/http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/exclusive-nokia-booklet-3g-hands-on/]]>Oct 24th 2009 3:15AM