Netbooks aren't a bad as people say. I still own my netbook, still works fine. I got one of the first models that came out actually, and for being a first gen, its not too bad. It has 64MB dedicated video memory (and that's all I about know since I never actually looked it up) 1GB DDR2 533Mhtz RAM, 160GB hard drive and a 1.6Ght Atom processor. I tested PWI on it as well, about 20-25 fps at minimal settings, don't even ask about medium and high. My netbook however still supports 1920x1080, maybe even 2560x1600 resolution<---(that was a guess of numbers, you get what I'm talking about) on an external monitor of coarse.
Probably was one of those models with the Intel GMA 950 and the Atom N270 processor. In which case, 2048?1536 (VGA maximum) would have been the limit since said GMA has no HDMI (<=1920x1080) or DVI/DisplayPort (<=2560x1600) support.
Unless, of course, it was one of the models with NVIDIA ION, but those came around 2009, during the middle of the netbook craze.
As for netbooks now, I'm still not a fan but the models with AMD Fusion APUs are very interesting.
I was in luck for Tiny 7 since I don't have beast machines, or even machines comparable to today. All my machines were 32bit, until last week when I bought a perfectly good 64-bit mobo with its case and PSU for 10 bucks. I added the extra components and put my student copy from IRSC of Windows 7 Professional x64 and it runs nicely, though its not my main until I get 3-4Gb or RAM in it.
I do wish Tiny 7 kept Japanese in there just as you mentioned but because I can't read Japanese anyways, its not hurting me too much just yet
I think the major reason Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were removed from Tiny 7 was due to the fact that these languages have so many characters (and, for Korean, character combinations). In turn, this takes up lots of space.
For the Win7 x64 install, just skip straight to 4+ GB of RAM. Any less and it's not worth the 64-bit jump.
Finally found that bastard cng.sys file, which Windows says was corrupted after a failed replacement with another cng.sys from same drive. Time to bring out the old clone....
ANOTHER EDIT: What is this, there was no cng.sys on the original source! Damnit!
Oh well, I guess I'll have to back up Carmageddon (ugh this is tough), more documents, call an ATA Secure Erase (to speed the SSD back up), and re-clone! Another overnight job, brilliant!
A THIRD EDIT: Already knew that on systems with Physical Address Extensions (PAE) enabled, 32-bit Linux, BSD, and Mac OS kernels can address up to 32GB of memory total. However, applications are still stuck to 4GB maximum (a major let-down for us audio creators who may have heaps of instruments loaded at once).