Installation

This past weekend I installed Windows 7 "Retail" ultimate edition on my netbook. Here are the machine specs:

• Intel Atom CPU
• 1GB ram
• 8GB (more like 7.2GB) SSD
• 4 hour battery life
• 9 inch screen

That is enough to give you an idea of what this machine is capable of. Basically it is a Dell Mini 9 n series.

Prior to the installation I had Ubuntu Netbook Remix installed on there.

Besides struggling to prepare the installer on a 4GB usb stick, the installation process lasted less than an hour. I used the following instructions to prepare the USB stick:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_to_install_windows_7_beta_a_usb_key

I did try to compress installer files as suggested here http://gizmodo.com/5257386/how-to-install-windows-7-on-almost-any-netbook but it did not work as described.

After the install I was left with about 650Mb of disk space. Now for starters that sucks.