>>>Hi. I’d like to ask if the Win XP on Asus Eee Pc can support 1024×768 resolution?

There is a hack.
http://forums.themodshop.net/index.php?topic=116.0

Hi. I’d like to ask if the Win XP on Asus Eee Pc can support 1024×768 resolution?

There is a tutorial here: http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html
that will let you install windows XP from a usb flash drive.

Anyone else experience their CPU being at 100% all the time with XP? It seemed to be happen to mine recently, so much so that youtube video would constantly drop frames. So in the meantime, I’ve reverted back to Linux.

Hi,
i just bought a EEE pc And im thinking about putting XP on it..
dont no yet is it worth all the trouple in buying a portable disk drive?
Or can i put the xp install file on a memory stick?

Thank,
charlie

Novice here. My mother bought an Asus for the sole purpose of downloading podcasts she can listen to anywhere in the house–away form her main computer. She tried an ipod first and it drove her crazy–too small and not user freindly for an old person. When the Asus arrived we found it can not download anything becasue of its Linux operating system. First of all, is that true or do we just have to try harder or is there a work around? The Asus instructions simply said “plug your ipod into the side port” . Since it can get on line, why can’t it download it directly? Is installing XP the only way out? Since we are both computer illiterate can we take it somewhere to have them perform this?

Kevin

Can you email me a step by step how to install XP on my Asus EEE?

Thx
Fabio

Kevin

Can you email me a step by step how to install XP on my Asus EEE?

Thx
Fabio

@JME, just order one from the US. Even with international shipping and the usurious VAT/duty, it’ll still probably be cheaper (in Euros) than it will be when they start selling it in Germany. You just know they’re going to ask the same price in Euros as the Dollar price in the US — which’ll make it 40% – 50% more expensive in Europe than in the US.

@Kevin, I have XP Home running on a very old 400 Mhz Celeron laptop with 160 MB of RAM (among other low-speed uses, we use it as a print server since it has a parallel port). I was amazed at how well XP ran on it…until I installed anti-virus, firewall, and anti-spyware software. One (or all) of those just killed the performance. Now, it runs like a dog. Have you put such software on the Eee PC? If so, how has it impacted the performance?

Alan Pozner: A laptop with 15,4″ screen will have three times the weight of the Eee, thus making it not really portable.

The key is that for $399 the Eee is about the cheapest “subnotebook” you can get. Normally, the smaller the size of the machine the more expensive it will be.

Xou can upgrade the Eee (to a certain extend) but you cannot make a 15,4″ laptop any smaller or lighter.

Kevin,

I know you LOVE your EEE but let me try to be the voice of reason again. The EEE is $400 and XP is not free. If you want to be legal you need to buy a copy of XP (looks like about $109). You also added RAM. That’s $550 for a laptop with a tiny screen, slow processor and small disk space. I can buy a Dell Vostro with a 15.4″ screen, 1GB RAM, XP Home, 120GB HD DVD+R for $449. I can find the same kinda pricing over at HP/Compaq.

You said you were surprised at how well it ran at 630. How quickly we forget that the early XP laptop operated in that range. I still remember my 700 mHz machine that operated on XP just fine.

I got just under 3 hours of continuous battery life with wifi on, the screen set at 3 notches above the lowest setting, and running XP.

I must say though that charging the ASUS is a bit of a dog – in my estimation, it took about 3 hours to charge the battery from empty!

Anyone else notice similar recharge numbers?

Hey Kevin;

The hold-alt to move and resize windows thing (it should resize if you right click) is a Linux thing, not just an Asus thing. It is really handy for small-screen devices, though… I don’t have an Eee, but I’m sure you can get the Hold-Alt-to-move thing on Windows using WinMover:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/WinMover_d4961.html

I install it on all my Windows boxes; the alt-move thing just becomes too much of a habit.

This article really makes me want to buy an Eee. What more could you want from a device like this.

I can´t believe it is still not available over here in Germany. You guys are so lucky that you can just go out and buy one.

Yep, I’m definitely loving XP on my Eee… I’m still planning to write about it sometime soon!