Netbooks being trimmed down laptops, it seems logical that a trimmed down OS will help the little PCs run a bit faster when it comes to booting, loading programs and resuming from sleep.  Slashdot found someone who didn’t want to make that assumption and took an Asus Eee PC 1008HA and loaded it with WinXP, Win7 and Ubuntu to see just how the netbook performed doing a variety of common tasks.  Follow the link to see how these OSes fared.

“With the arrival last month of Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition, PC Pro has revisited a familiar question: which operating system is best for a netbook?. The magazine has run a series of benchmarks on a Asus Eee PC 1008HA running Windows XP Home, two versions of Windows 7 (with and without Aero switched on) and Ubuntu Netbook Edition. The operating systems are tested for start-up performance, Flash handling and video, among other tests. The results are closer than you might think.”

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