Craig Marcho Support Engineer with the Performance team: Today’s post is going to be something a little different than you’re used to seeing on AskPerf. We’re going to take a look at my recent experiences with Windows 7 and a netbook laptop. I remember the first ‘portable’ computer that I was able to get my hands on. It weighed probably 8 pounds (it felt like more) and had a monochrome screen. It was a truly portable machine, but you didn’t want to have to carry this thing around a whole lot. From that point on, it seemed that laptop manufacturers began to make them smaller, more powerful and lighter. Somewhere this focus shifted back to making larger 15” and 17” screens, with power that rivaled most desktop systems (hence the Desktop Replacement laptops!), and along with that the weight and size crept back up. Fast forward to the present time …
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