New rules for the UMPC XP market
Engadget is reporting on new rules for the UMPC XP market, From the article;
While Microsoft has seen it fit to keep XP around as its “relatively non-bloated OS” alternative to the Linux that has dominated this new category of “ultra low-cost PCs” (ULPCs), they’re certainly not giving away the farm. Microsoft doesn’t want this version of XP Home creeping into mainstream laptops and desktops, where it might compete with Vista sales and high-margin machines from PC manufacturers. To that end, Microsoft is setting the limits for ULPCs at 10.2-inch screens, 80GB of storage, 1GB of RAM, 1GHz processors (with some exceptions) and no touchscreens. The upshot is that licenses for XP will go for $26 in developing nations and $32 elsewhere. Too bad the XP faithful among us will need to try a bit harder to wrangle XP onto new machines of theirs that don’t fit these narrow specifications.
What does this mean for the Mininote if it gets the new VIA Isaiah CPU?
Tags: CPU, hardware, internal hardware, VIA, xp
May 10th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
It means nothing for the Mini-Note, since most Mini-Note models already come with 120GB or larger hard drives, which would seem to disqualify them. The original IDG News Service story that Engadget cites states that Microsoft considers 80GB the HDD cutoff point.
On the other hand, if Microsoft is willing to make an exception for VIA C7 processors and Intel Atom chips, I don’t see why the Isaiah wouldn’t be included as well.
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:30 am
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