Those of you in the market to purchase a netbook, listen up!

So we already know that that netbooks are no longer being forced to ship with Windows 7 Starter Edition; new netbooks give customers the option to have it shipped with Home Premium or above.  That said, now there is a different restriction being lifted on netbooks: Intel will allow netbook manufacturers to ship their systems with more than 1GB of RAM.  This will allow for much faster and efficient netbooks.  The 1.83GHz N470 Intel Atom “Pine Trail” chip will give a boost to netbooks ’round the world come this March.

The lifing of the 1GB RAM restrcition continues to blur the distinction between netbooks and small laptops or ultraportables.

[Via Engadget]