Vista does not work well on Netbooks (it works, agreed ... but not
well), it's more expensive than XP and more people actually prefer XP.
So XP is the right answer. The mfgrs are trying to achieve the absolute
lowest cost, under $300. That means the minimum amount of memory that
will provide reasonable performance. In that regard, be glad that you
get 1GB and not 512MB.


Mahlon Wagner wrote:
> Is there any reason why netbooks seem to come OEM with only 1 GB RAM,
> and with Windows XP?
>
> I understand that many models will accomodate 2GB RAM, and also run
> either Vista or Windows 7.
>
> Curiious
> Mahl