HP Mini 110 and 311 with Windows 7 available now

Chris · #1 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 06:11 PM

HP has begun to offer the HP Mini 110 and 311 with Windows 7 now:You can now pick up your HP Mini 311 that can play a ton of games including COD 4 at the same starting price of $399 but this time with Windows 7 or the HP Mini 110 series with Windows 7 [...]

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ThisIsNot · #2 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 06:59 PM

Stores across the U.S. started selling Windows 7 powered computers yesterday. Best Buy started selling higher end notebooks, mid-line notebooks, and netbooks (HP and Dell) with Windows 7. Too bad they insist on loading Windows 7 Starter on netbooks. At least HP is offering the Mini 311 with Windows 7 Home Premium but it is a $50 upgrade. Might as well get it with Windows XP and then buy Winodws 7 Home Premium for $30 from Microsoft's student store.

My guess is that we won't start seeing "proper" (as in no crappy Windows 7 Starter) configurations of Windows 7 on netbooks until year's end. Manufacturer's want to throw Windows 7 Starter on netbooks. I don't understand it as most netbooks can run 7 Premium without issues. Any netbook running an Atom A520 processor and above will run Windows 7 Home Premium just fine. No need to install 7 Starter.