Over at Fudzilla, there’s a great report about the rules pertaining to using XP.

There are five basic rules which are as follows:

1. Thou shall not build in flash drives larger than 16GB or hard drives larger than 160GB
2. Neither shall you use graphics which support anything over DirectX 9.0
3. Thou shall not install more than 1GB of memory
4. You shall use a single-core CPU, clocked under 1GHz, unless it’s one of the following: Intel Atom (N270, N230, Z500, Z510, Z520, Z530, Z540); or Intel Celeron 220; or AMD Geode LX, Athlon (2650e, Sempron 210U); or VIA C7-M (ULV), Neon (U2300, U2400, and U2500) CPU.
5. Thou shall use screens up to 10.2-inches on netbooks, 14.1-inches on large screen netbooks, and any size you may wish on nettops.

Microsoft is laying the groundwork for making sure they aren’t shooting themselves in the foot and preparing as Windows 7 is released.

1. Nvidia, VIA Part Ways On Netbooks

2. X100e And Asus 1201T Face Off

3. RIP 11.6″ Netbooks, We Hardly Knew Ye

4. 2010 Netbook Buying Guide: Part 1 – Features

5. AMD Forcing Intel To Rethink Netbook Chip Strategy