You may find it interesting to note that WinXP will continue to be available specifically for netbooks because it has a significantly smaller memory and CPU requirement to vista/Win7. I don't recall how long this is projected for.

Personally, i wouldn't install vista/Win7 on anything it didn't ship with. Older hardware, unless really powerful when purchased and less than, say, 2 years old will be behind the performance 8 ball.


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