Wait... It is alright to recommend one brand over another yet it is not OK to tell people to stay away from one OS? The purpose of an operating system is not to just run the computer. If that were the case, we would all still be running DOS or the OSs used on the Apple and Apple IIe systems. If the sole purpose of an operating system was to run a computer, Microsoft would have never released Windows Vista as it runs systems rather poorly, much more people would be using Linux, etc.
Using Windows 7 Home Premium over Windows 7 Starter has not shown higher costs (aside from what manufacturers charge on their customization sites). For example, Best Buy was offering an Asus Eee PC 1005HA-B (the Best Buy edition) with Windows XP. I can now purchase the same netbook at Best Buy running Windows 7 Home Premium for a price that is actually less than what it was last year. There is absolutely no excuse to offer a watered down version of Windows 7 for netbooks especially since Microsoft spent so much time making sure that Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate (though not every feature) could run on typical netbook hardware. I can understand why Microsoft did this with Vista as that was a resource hog. Windows 7 isn't though. It consumes a little more resources than Windows XP but it isn't anything near what Vista consumes.
I guess I don't see anything wrong with someone not recommending a watered down OS especially whenever many people have brand recommendations. Is it alright for me to recommend HP, you to recommend Asus, and Eric to recommend Dell yet we can't comment on the operating systems being run on netbooks?
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