The Netbook future loves Linux.

Netbook be shipped with Windows XP - at least so far. That could soon change. At the Computex computer trade show in Taiwan are mini-notebooks to see which cell phone chips and running Linux versions running. Nevertheless, Microsoft could be the future Netbook secure.

 

The first Netbook, the Asus EEEPC 901, yet it looked as if the little light on low-cost laptops will always be running Linux. Asus had a Linux system to the small screen and the processor adapted slippers. Vista to install it, it would have been impossible, because Microsoft's current Windows too high demands on the hardware.

The solution came in the form of an oldies: Especially for the Netbook, Microsoft Windows XP, which actually has long disappeared from the range should continue to retain its sales lists. However Netbook exclusively for and under the condition that certain low-priced computer maximums do not exceed. Because of these limitations have Windows Netbook never more than a gigabyte of RAM and 160 GB of disk space.

Hopes, these limits may, with the introduction of Windows 7, could be a report of the industry Web site "
Digitimes' nullification. As a result, both Intel and Microsoft to extend the screen size for Windows-7-inch Netbook to 10.2 only. Confirmed this is not, both companies said to mention the rumors.

A smartphone chip in low-cost laptop

A restriction to a maximum of 10.2-inch screens could be the manufacturers, however, also make tasty, again alternatives to Windows on it. The fact that several manufacturers are already in the process, which is based on Linux-based Android mobile operating system to adjust the small computer, has long been no secret anymore. At Computex, but is now actually a Android-Netbook to see.

Issued, it is calculated from Asus, the company, its Netbook Linux in favor of Windows XP again einstampfte. On a Netbook, which just presented EEEPC 1008HA striking looks similar, is also designated as a Google OS operating system. What the system is still out: The device is not the normal Intel hardware, all else equal Netbook makes. Instead, the Android-Netbook Snapdragons by Qualcomm chipset driven.

The same chips potter in TG01 Toshiba smartphone and will be in a pbook designated as Wistron Widescreen Netbook work. If they stick to what Qualcomm promises - and the first video evidence of the Netbook Asus Snapdragons-out - they should be exactly the right mix of multimedia performance and power management technology are united, the one from a counterpart to Intel's Atom Netbook processor wishes.