Comment 1031 for bug 1

Conrad Knauer wrote:
> My prediction is that companies which decide to put Windows 7 Starter
> (limited to 3 concurrent applications... can we say "crippleware"? ;)
> on netbooks are going to have unhappy customers and low sales, those
> who continue to preload XP will continue to do well and those that
> preload Ubuntu will see increasing sales.

I think you are dead on with a lot of that. Moreover, I think there are
two totally different markets for netbooks. One is people that want a
cheap laptop with XP. The other is people that want a small, cheap,
fast appliance. It seems that a lot of short sighted companies are
going after the first market, but forgetting the other.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/05/15/asus_uk_eee_roadmap/ The daddy
of the market abandons "small," the fast SSD drive, and Linux. The
comments tell the story. Once Windows 7 comes out, and XP is officially
killed, Dell may be the only one left in the market, and I think they
will do very well.