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Windows is Dead….Long Live Windows. Today Samsung announced that they will be using Windows 7 Starter Edition on two upcoming netbooks. The N130 and N140 will both have Win7 Starter Edition installed by default, though for those who still have nightmares of Vista upgrades, XP Home is an available option.

The two Netbooks are nearly identical, featuring an Intel Atom N270/N280, a 10.1-inch screen, up to a 250 GB hard drive and optional support for mobile broadband technologies HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access), WiMax and WiBro.The difference between the models comes in battery life. Using a 6-cell battery, the N140 is said by Samsung to last up to 11 hours, compared to only 7.5 hours for the N130, according to Samsung.

The N130 and N140 are slated to start shipping in September (a bit early for Win7, isn’t that?) priced in the 500-600 dollar range. I expect these are just the first of a lot of Windows 7 netbook announcements we will be getting over the next several weeks, soon to be followed by lots of interesting comparison tests between XP, Vista and 7.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).