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I bought my daughter one of these little dell pc's for £200 at christmas and to be honest its not bad but we had the normal ubunto software left on this.

Its ok but its driving everyone mad because they are used to windows and I keep promising I will put windows on this machine.

Does anyone know the best version of windows to put on this machine and to put windows on is that a USB version I need ?

Thanks for any info in advance

Mickie
 
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put a hookey version of win7 ultimate on me ma's mini 9, no drivers needed, runs sweet.

get the latest version from nzbrus, it comes will all latest updates built in, and use daz's latest loader to patch activation.

(i used latest 3 times in one sentence, must consult thesaurus on alternate :) )

to install I used and old IDE dvd-rom connected to one of those USB->SATA//IDE cable kits from ebay, about a fiver.
 
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My wife has a dell mini lappy and it has XP on it. runs a treat for her.
You could install it via a usb external dvd drive easy enough.
 
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I got my daughter a mini laptop for Christmas Its the usual speck for these :

intel atom 1.6 cpc
160 gb hdd
1 gb ram ect ect

I have it set to dual boot with xp service pack 3 and windows 7 home premium
both installed to separate partitions on the hdd. Both run well with no problems to date.

Windows 7 runs fine on this, used a external dvd drive to install xp and installed windows 7 via a iso img with power iso.

@manx
 
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Sounds like the dell mini imprison 1010 or 10v atom 1.6Mhz with a 1GB ram

I've got a couple which the kids use...... one with the 8gb solid state HD and the other with a 160GB HD

Both XP and windows 7 run ok but I do personally think unbuntu runs a lot better as you need all the AV stuff on windows etc etc etc and after a while windows grinds to a halt then it's a reinstalll

What I've done with the 160GB hd netbook is to install windows 7 then I've installed ubuntu 10.04 inside of windows giving me a dual boot for the best of both worlds

With both OS's though browsing, emailing, bit of word processing and maybe watching bbc iplayer is the all there really good for
 
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im running windows XP at the moment, not got round to putting windows 7 starter on, what spec of your machine m8, if its a hard drive it will run windows 7 starter fine if its a SSD card then it will be slow with windows 7
 
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Napster said:
im running windows XP at the moment, not got round to putting windows 7 starter on, what spec of your machine m8, if its a hard drive it will run windows 7 starter fine if its a SSD card then it will be slow with windows 7
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Dunno what HD it is lol... its 11GB when I was looking at the ubunto stats.

Is there such a thing as XP light then ?

Thanks for all the replies lads.

Regards
Mickie
 
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Mickie D said:
Dunno what HD it is lol... its 11GB when I was looking at the ubunto stats.

Is there such a thing as XP light then ?

Thanks for all the replies lads.

Regards
Mickie
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Mickie, IIWY I'd go with normal XP mate.

I found that although Win7 runs and 'works', it is extremely slow when you have more than one application running. Netbooks are ace, but they're not quite as versatile as a real Laptop.

I'm writing this post on a Compaq Netbook with the same CPU as your DELL and 2Gb of Ram, running WinXP Pro and it's magic. :)
 
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I should add that my copy of Win7 was not the starter edition, it was the full shebang. :)
 
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Just to 2nd witchy's 2 posts above ...

i am running the full xp with service pack 3 and windows 7 on a netbook.

i would go for xp service pack 3 for yours because of the 11gb harddrive.
 
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depending on how old your daughter is, I would prefer my child to learn and use the most up to date OS, not some 10 year old relic.

Mind you XP is better than the joke Vista was.

what size is the HD?, check in the BIOS, one of the F keys when booting.
 
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depending on how old your daughter is, I would prefer my child to learn and use the most up to date OS, not some 10 year old relic.

Mind you XP is better than the joke Vista was.

what size is the HD?, check in the BIOS, one of the F keys when booting.
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She is 11yrs ... she uses the netbook for msn ... facebook ... reading ebooks listening to music and watching the films i download for her maybe nock out the odd doc with pen office ect.

If she wants to do a it of video editing or use photoshop she can use the power house of a desktop i built in the pc room, there she can choose which OS to use via the many virtual drives installed. Variety is the spice of life they say.

I see what you are saying, i suppose my 2 are lucky ... i love putters and encourage my 2 youngsters to play around with them.
 
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11gb hard drive i would say thats a ssd memory card it will run xp mickie but will proform better with whats allready on it.
 
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Whats wrong with Ubuntu? It's a cracking O/S

Got a dual boot running with it on the laptop, I think it cracking, it's been so much improved over the years. If I didn't have a legit Win7 on the laptop I'd happily use Ubuntu full time on it. It's ideal for internet, word type stuff IMHO.

I shall make sure my little fella is happy in a Linux environment once he starts using computers properly, I think it's a must these days.
 
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Agreed.

Ubuntu or any of the smaller Linux builds are ideal.

I don't use it as I seldom use the Netbook except for the odd time when I need to run some Engine Diagnostic software - none of which runs on Linux, and the only other use of the machine is MSN, music, videos and web surfing for my kid - I tried him on Linux and he was having none of it.

I should make him use my Amiga for a week or two, then he'd appreciate Linux. ;)

Ubuntu = one day OSX will become half as good. :)
 
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Cheers lads.

I love linux but the kids do not like it.

I think it should all be command prompt if I had my way lol, linux command prompt is the best tool about.

Mickie
 
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I tried to put linux on mrs laptop and netbook that I share with my son and neither of them were having it. Even tried to get mrs to convert to mac o/s and she says that she is quite happy on windows 7.
 
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i had tiny xp on my lappy mate alot smaller than xp really good as well ill try and find the cd now i could do you a copy and post it to you if that would be any good m8....
 
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