[DaveMSmith]

How do you suppose Microsoft is going to keep selling XP netbooks and not put in a fix to allow XP users to benefit fully from the new hard drives?

Netbooks typically have a small 16GB solid state 'hard drive'. The article is talking about physical disk formats over 2TB.

[SmokingJoe]

Netbooks typically have a small 16GB solid state ‘hard drive’.

The very early ones did. Not any more.
Most have physical disk hard drives these days.

You can check yourself on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/1232596011/ref=pd_ts_pc_nav