I've purchased an Acer Revo 1600 (Intel Atom 1.6 GHz single-core CPU) and it came with Windows XP but I have an MSDN membership so I'm going to throw Windows 7 on it and use it solely as a HTPC.

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So you've decided to take the Windows 7 plunge, having heard all the paeans to Redmond's latest operating system. For many users, setting it up will be a simple case of popping in the installation ...

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