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		tome on Oct 30, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released Presumably Microsoft won't allow it. To make Windows competitive they have a discount for OEMs to install Windows on machines with low spec, and presumably this SSD is too large to be able to take advantage of that.

notauser on Oct 31, 2009 [–]

This is correct. The limit appears to be 16gb to qualify for the (very large) discount.

http://www.itexaminer.com/microsoft-adds-to-atoms-restrictio...

Supposedly the Win 7 license has no such restriction.

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