I bought this little nice netbook for Christmas. It came with Windows XP and loaded with a lot of OEM installed craplets. When I booted it, it wasn’t super fast, but it was OK. There are some reviews that say Vista will run like molasses on these kind of machines. I wanted to check if it’s true, so I installed Vista. It turns out Vista is actually pretty fast on S10. I got the performance score of 2.7 which is limitted by “gaming graphics.” This is not surprising. Next is Intel Atom processor with the score of 3.0 and the rest are actually above 4.0 which is pretty good. In fact Vista doesn’t need a fast processor so much as it needs memory and a fast disk.
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