windows 7 home premium vs home basic

What is the difference between these two?

I'm trying to choose between these two for a traveling netbook (not my main system), should I really care about the Home Premium? (The price for Home Premium is more than 10% cost of the netbook)

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via Wikipedia: - comparison of the windows 7 editions..

• Home Basic("HB") is limited to 8GB of physical RAM on 64-bit systems ( 16GB on Home Premium ("HP"))
• HB does not have in-built DVD decoders
• HB does not have Media Center
• HB is available in Emerging Markets only
• HB can only join HomeGroups, HP can create & join HomeGroups

Edit: I don't think Aero makes much sense on a netbook anyway.

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Just get Home Basic, you don't need Aero or >8 GB RAM, and you can download alternatives to all of the software it doesn't include.

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