This is an update on a previous post about Netbook Returns. Well it seems that more information about Netbook returns has come available and this was actually based on machines that are not short of RAM or performance, as the quote from MSI’s Director of Sales, Andy Tung found on the Digital Home Thoughts site. Their MSI Wind is one of the leading devices and comes with 1GB of RAM as standard, and the Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor. This does confirm that the ‘familiarity’ issue is prevalent amongst ordinary consumers and causing this returns problem.
Well the idea I pushed in the previous post could be a stopgap measure for those persons who feel uncomfortable with Linux after use, where a flash device with the install media of Windows XP could be used to step upgrade the Linux based device. However, it seems certain that a move to Windows XP is naturally going to happen for most new Netbooks, well at least until a new version of Windows is made available that solves Vista’s performance problems – whether that is Windows 7 or not.
