Today I am going to talk about my own experience that I have had with two netbooks and two operating systems of Windows different. On the one hand, the Asus EeePC 1005HA with Windows XP Home Edition, and on the other, Nokia Booklet 3G with Windows 7 Starter Edition. I do not want to talk much about laptops, I will only say that they are very similar in terms of processor and RAM technical characteristics, so the hardware should not be very decisive in this comparison. Of course, the price of the Nokia is double that of the Asus.
Both operating systems are not the most complete of their respective versions, something logical considering that the devices are not very powerful, in fact, they are the most basic of each. However, there are big differences between the two. With Windows XP you can work fluently in a normal environment: music, browser, office automation ... We are not going to ask you for clear FullHD video. But with Windows 7 I've noticed that most of the usual use is slow and heavy.
After looking at the requirements of each system, it is clear that a netbook with Windows XP can work perfectly because in no case requires more than 1 GHz of processor or 512 MB of RAM (in fact, with 233 MHz and 64 MB it already operates) On the contrary, Windows 7 needs practically all the resources of the ultraportable. This makes it torture to work with him and get a decent performance. It is true that the Starter Edition does not help, but the Home Edition of XP is not great either.
In conclusion I could say that the lords of Microsoft have wanted to get us Windows 7 at all costs, even on netbooks where it really isn't functional. If you didn't try Windows Vista, why are you trying Windows 7? They are having a hard time getting rid of Windows XP and the fame of Windows Vista, but with this policy of using 100% of the resources I doubt they will earn anything, at least in ultraportable users.