I was nodding my head in agreement several times this morning while reading Michael Gartenberg’s most recent Computerworld article. A Jupiter Research analyst, Michael shares his experiences with an Asus Eee PC and comes to the same conclusion many of has have had here: Vista isn’t really geared to work well on ultramobile computers. Michael calls for an “XP Lite” out of Microsoft, a twist on what we’ve longed for in a “Vista Mobile” environment.Using nLite freeware, you can customize your own XP installation, but that’s not something mainstream consumers can, should have to or want to do. When I put XP on my Eee, I opted not to use nLite, but I did remove certain XP components from the installation. That ended up leaving me 1.5 GB of free space on the 4 GB SDD storage. nLite, by comparison, provided Michael with a full 2 GB of storage capacity. In either case, I think the UMPC market is asking for a leaner Windows environment; one that offers full Windows application compatibility, but doesn’t require desktop-horsepower to run well in a portable device.
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