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As laptops are getting cheaper they are becoming a preferable choice for everyone and people are going for them but these cheap laptops are no good to run latest Windows from Microsoft known as “Vista”. Vista do come in different version but still minimum requirement for even the basic version is way much higher then required by Windows XP or any other operating system.
Any one who would like to use Windows Vista needs atleast 1 GB RAM for normal performance and 2 GB RAM for pure performance but cheap laptops do not come with this much RAM. They mostly come with 512 MB RAM or 1 GB RAM at the most. So any one who would like to use Vista and have a cheap low memory laptop would need to purchase or upgrade its memory which would cost some extra money.
Many big companies like Dell, HP, Acer etc are selling Vista ready laptops which also do not have enough memory to run it decently as it eats a lot of system resources. A lot of Vista users have already moved to other operating systems such as Window XP and other Linux based operating system such as Ubuntu as they do not require high system configurations as Vista do and are easily operational on cheap laptops.
Dell who sells more low priced laptops then its premium laptops has already started offering a choice in operating systems to its new low-priced laptops customers. Dell has received a lot of positive feedback from its customers for offering this option and many other companies are also looking to offer the same choice to their customers.
So if look at the overall talk and reports it would be easy to see that Vista has already been kicked out as people who are buying/using cheap laptops prefer to either go with Windows XP or some Linux based Operating System.