Comments on: Windows XP in December, Desktop Eee PC in 2008?

By: JoDoe

JoDoe — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:41:17 +0000

You cannot tether your Blackberry (mine, an 8700g), through eee pc without win XP installed. Just for anyone else wanting to wonder why “XP” on eee. It means that you will have unlimited wireless connectivity wherever, and whenever your cell phones network is available (I have the unlimited data plan, 19.99/month.). Sorry to all of you linux supporters/XP bashers out there. Nothing personal. I want my eee to perform like my XP desktop, and it does so beautifully! Tethered to my Blackberry while on the road, even better than being at home! = ) (Hope this helps someone else)

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By: SPM

SPM — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:58:09 +0000

Just one point for anybody considering buying an eeePC. If you want a Windows PC to run your existing heavyweight Windows shrink wrapped applications and into which you want to plug in lots of peripherals, you should think about buying a low cost luggable heavyweight Windows laptop with an 80GB hard drive and a DVD drive. You can get these at only slightly higher cost.

If on the other hand you want a ultra portable, ultra rugged, ultra connectivity laptop which you can take anywhere, and you are going to use it for email, Skype, web conferencing, web browsing, using the office suite etc, using LAN, WiFi or G3 phone (with the G3 add on card), then go for the eeePC.

Even if you already have a heavyweight laptop like me, you might want to get an eeePC as a primary laptop to carry round with you always, because most of the time, my other laptop is too heavy to carry around.

Trying to stuff too many applications, OS options and expansion into the eeePC destroys the beautiful simplicity, ease of use, and functionality of the eeePC that makes it so unique and appealing.

A non partisan review from Laptop Magazine:
http://laptopmag.com/Review/Exclusive-First-Review-Asus-Eee-PC-701.htm

By: SPM

SPM — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:41:25 +0000

Ian King:

Yes OpenOffice will will read and write MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint binary files for MS Office 95, 97, 2000, 2002/XP, 2003. It won’t run MS VBA macros (which in 99% never use except to inadvertently run macro viruses). It also won’t read MS visio files.

OpenOffice is a superb MS Office compatible product product which my company uses at work in preference to MS Office.
What you can do is try out the Windows version of OpenOffice(with JRE) which downloadable and usable for free from http://www.openoffice.org
on any Windows PC, before you buy the eeePC

By: SPM

SPM — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:28:43 +0000

I have used Windows laptops for years, and have tried Linux before and gone back to Windows. What I can’t understand is why anyone other than a geek type would want to replace the pre-installed Linux OS with either Windows or another Linux. The pre-installed Linux OS is light years ahead of either Windows or other Linuxes in terms of ease of use, user friendliness, boot time, and speed. The ability to install thousands of new apps with a click of the mouse in the case of Linux rather than install boxed shrink wrapped applications from CD ROMS is a real bonus for a laptop that comes without a CD/DVD drive.

Wear levelling IS a major issue for flash storage. If you don’t know how to set Windows or other Linuxes without swap, then DON’T do it. Swap re-uses the same portion of the drive very heavily and will wear out the inbuilt storage very quickly rendering you eeePC useless (thousands of rewrites is no sufficient for swap). By the way Windows does not do wear leveling at all and other Linux distros do not do wear levelling by default. It is the filesystem that does wear leveling, and Windows does not have to option of using a wear leveling filesystem. This is much less critical of course than the swap usage, but will still reduce the eeePC’s life.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:29:33 +0000

okey,,,
i wanna to buy EEE PC,,,
but i start to doubt about it, because i wanna buy it if it’s use windows OS. Will EEE PC come in Indonesian with Windows OS

By: Jerry Aceto

Jerry Aceto — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:07:58 +0000

I have just installed the advanced desktop on my Eee.It came right up and works fine. The problem is that when I move an application short cut, such as the calculator to the desktop, the icon comes up on the desktop just fine and is fully functional when double clicking it. The problem is when I shut down the machine and come back later, all the icons I installed to the desktop are gone, except for the original “home” icon. There must be a way to cause the desktop to stay populated with the icons, otherwise, the desktop is useless to me. How do you save the short-cut icons on the desktop so they will come up everytime the machine is booted up, as in Windows?
Thanks….Jerry

By: Groklaw Writer

Groklaw Writer — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:11:51 +0000

Windows is a piece of shit, only retards use it instead of Linux.

By: James

James — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:10:27 +0000

Damn, I was looking forward to getting one of these sometime next year, but if Asus is going to put Windows on there instead of Linux, I think will have to pass. I do pretty much all my computing on Linux these days, and the last thing I want is yet another unused copy of Windows sitting around.