Comments on: Windows XP Eee PC Coming to USA February or March

By: Rory

Rory — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:13:10 +0000

Did a new test tonight, Linux boots in 29 seconds and XP boots in 40 seconds – from power on.

By: Rory

Rory — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:01:21 +0000

Forgot to add, they should have dumped the speakers and just left the headphone jack to gain a larger screen, as when on a plane for example, no need for Speakers.

Also, if you want to load XP, just put a ME floppy image on a Flash Card, boot to that, use Delpart to delete the partitions (Fdisk would not delete 2 of them in my case but Delpart worked). Once all 4 partitions are gone, then you have 3.8GB to utilize. Get a regular CD Drive from a Desktop PC and buy an IDE to USB adapter, put your XP CD in that CD Drive and boot to that using escape to select the drive, run XP setup as normal (maybe able to delete the partitions with XP setup actually but I didnt try yet) – setup will take a long time as it is running over USB. If you install the XP updates watch out as their uninstallers take up space too. Disable the page file then install your apps. Good to go from there.

By: Rory

Rory — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:54:17 +0000

Just loaded XP SP2 on the 4G and it runs great (with 2GB of DDR2 memory), better than the linux that came on it, and you can install other windows apps as well. Still had some 1.8GB left on the SSD also, even after the following were installed:

MS office XP – Word, Excel, Powerpoint (chose this over Office 2003 as it is slightly faster)
Mozilla Firefox (latest version)
Adobe Reader 8.12 (took up 121mb of space!)
AVG Antivirus (shell disabled, email disabled, all updated)
Outlook Express (comes with XP)
Windows Media Player (comes with XP)
..and other default XP applications.

XP SP2 with all the latest critical updates applied. Several services disabled as I do on all other XP Computers, which makes a difference, but does not stop XP from functioning as it should. Only thing on startup is Tweakui and AVG. All Drivers installed and working perfect. 30 Seconds Boot time. Can hardly tell it is a 900 Mhz Processor clocked at 603 Mhz!

Page file is disabled, due to 2GB of Ram, however could still enable it if required but will have to be custom size of perhaps 50mb-1024mb (some apps may need it such as Visual Basic, and some Adobe Apps, MS office does not though).

Webcam works fine (cheap cam though)

Will do some more testing but so far this is great. The Access time on the SSD is only 0.46ms compared to 7.6 on a 7200rpm desktop drive BTW. Read times are slower though. Working on a 2G tonight and going to load XP on that also, but this one will need to be stripped down some more and no MS Office on this one as just 512 memory!

Add in the Transcend 32GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card, dump some music on that and you are good to go

Rory

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:54:30 +0000

does the eee pc coming with XP in feb/ march also apply to australia or is it just US meaning aussies will have to wait longer…i am in the process of purchasing one myself.

By: vwra

vwra — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:51:44 +0000

Back in December 2007 I saw a posting that I seem to remember said Microsoft had agreed to offer XP at significant discount to current eeePC owners. I have lost the link to the posting. Can someone confirm or clarify ?

By: BER

BER — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:39:16 +0000

I know this is a bonehead Q (meaning I haven’t kept up with all the tech gizmo issues)

Can this miniPC deal with Internet via wireless broadband? Via card? via USB? how? and can it be hooked up to a std monitor? how about a std keyboard?

AND can it do internet broadband, keyboard, and monitor all at the same time given its ports?

thanks

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By: FireWolf

FireWolf — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:35:02 +0000

I didn’t buy an EEE PC to run windows apps. I have a windows machine for that. For me personally, I bought my 4gb because I want a small, portable laptop to use for simple doc creation, surfing, email, all in an extremely light backpack load.

As a FT college student, it’s important that I can cram my books and not lug around my large laptop with it. In this case, my EEE has a small footprint but does most of what I need a laptop to do.

It’s almost as if Asus catered to my whim.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:27:02 +0000

Unfortunately, here in Japan, the Eee is only available with XP. The Linux version is not available. This means I cannot choose Linux. Hopefully if the US is the first country where both versions are available (first Linux, then Linux and XP) then the numbers will start to show which one is more popular. Of course, it is possible that the Linux version will be withdrawn…

By: m

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:57:29 +0000

i am a grad student in the humanities. i need to run a reference manager called endnote that integrates tightly with word. it does not run on linux. my general situation is hardly unique, if not the specifics.
you know, i don’t think the jealous and spiteful attitude prevalent among some members of the linux community does their platform any favors. you tell me, why would you want to protest asus’s attempts to build a wider market for their machine, attempts that would in the long run be advantageous for the open source movement? the linux machine will always be cheaper, and that’ll be enough for many people. better economies of scale for asus = lower eee prices = more linux users. use your heads.