Which OS is lighter for a netbook?

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My friend purchased a Samsung NP355E5X netbook, which runs on some AMD Dual Core APU 1.4 GHz. It comes with DOS, so need to install a proper OS. That CPU is pretty average, so which OS should he install, Windows 7 or Windows 8? Also 32 or 64 bit?
Please don't recommend any Linux stuffs.

WinXP x64
I will recommend Linux mint/Ubuntu though, but I know some peoples will never understand :lol:

Okay, I should've asked which between Win 7 and Win 8.
Yeah, some people doesn't understand Linux, but that friend of mine is the most intelligent person I've ever seen, so for him he doesn't wanna understand

From my experience, though not on netbooks, I've found win 8 to be less resource hungry and noticeably more responsive and faster especially in copying operations than win 7. Go with 32bit (assuming ram is only 2gb)

Though I'd personal prefer a Linux distro with xfce or lxde as DE but since you don't want to be friends with linux,,, meh

Thanks mate, Win 8 it is.

First try Windows 8. If it doesn't work smoothly, try some Linux distro.

I am not sure if Windows 8 or 7 will be a good choice. For proper utilization of your hardware, XP is better.