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From: AJL on 4 Jul 2010 16:50 BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >>Works fine with Windows XP on the same machine though. ;-) Bill: I came into possession of a 'copy' of xp professional so thought what the heck I'll give it a try on the Eee PC 2G Surf. I was much surprised when it installed without a hitch, and with 300M of drive space left over after the installation. (That is about the same amount of total free drive space I had with Xandros after installation.) However after killing virtual memory, system restore, adjusting IE, and moving other functions to the SD drive I'm up over a whopping 1GB of free C: drive space!! I have to tell you I'm quite amazed after reading all the problems others have had squeezing xp into this machine. Asus of course has XP drivers so everything else is working just fine. I hate to admit it (after our recent xp/linux wars) but it does seem a bit more snappy under xp. Course I've only been using it for a few hours now so we'll have to see... ;)
From: BillW50 on 5 Jul 2010 06:51 In news:5ir136t5qcs80ehqtjftedi1q1nm62rdbd(a)4ax.com, AJL typed on Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:50:36 -0700: > BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: > >>> Works fine with Windows XP on the same machine though. ;-) > > Bill: > I came into possession of a 'copy' of xp professional so thought what > the heck I'll give it a try on the Eee PC 2G Surf. I was much > surprised when it installed without a hitch, and with 300M of drive > space left over after the installation. (That is about the same amount > of total free drive space I had with Xandros after installation.) > However after killing virtual memory, system restore, adjusting IE, > and moving other functions to the SD drive I'm up over a whopping 1GB > of free C: drive space!! I have to tell you I'm quite amazed after > reading all the problems others have had squeezing xp into this > machine. Asus of course has XP drivers so everything else is working > just fine. I hate to admit it (after our recent xp/linux wars) but it > does seem a bit more snappy under xp. Course I've only been using it > for a few hours now so we'll have to see... ;) Well that is good to hear and to be honest, I am not surprised. ;-) -- Bill Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 1 of 3 - Windows XP SP2
From: BillW50 on 5 Jul 2010 14:42 In news:i0sdfn$ra$1(a)news.eternal-september.org, BillW50 typed on Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:51:48 -0500: > In news:5ir136t5qcs80ehqtjftedi1q1nm62rdbd(a)4ax.com, > AJL typed on Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:50:36 -0700: >> BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >> >>>> Works fine with Windows XP on the same machine though. ;-) >> >> Bill: >> I came into possession of a 'copy' of xp professional so thought what >> the heck I'll give it a try on the Eee PC 2G Surf. I was much >> surprised when it installed without a hitch, and with 300M of drive >> space left over after the installation. (That is about the same >> amount of total free drive space I had with Xandros after >> installation.) However after killing virtual memory, system restore, >> adjusting IE, and moving other functions to the SD drive I'm up over >> a whopping 1GB of free C: drive space!! I have to tell you I'm quite >> amazed after reading all the problems others have had squeezing xp >> into this machine. Asus of course has XP drivers so everything else >> is working just fine. I hate to admit it (after our recent xp/linux >> wars) but it does seem a bit more snappy under xp. Course I've only >> been using it for a few hours now so we'll have to see... ;) > > Well that is good to hear and to be honest, I am not surprised. ;-) Just curious! What SP version is on that Windows XP Pro install disc? Retired your Palms? <sigh> I still use mine, although not a lot. I actually use the Palm Desktop v4.0.1 on the PCs a lot more. Older and newer versions of the Palm Desktop I didn't care too much for. iPod? Congratulations! I guess they are nice, never used one myself. I guess you really need a very large pocket before you can slip it into one, eh? -- Bill Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 1 of 3 - Windows XP SP2
From: AJL on 5 Jul 2010 19:49 "BillW50" wrote: >> AJL typed: >>> I came into possession of a 'copy' of xp professional so thought what >>> the heck I'll give it a try on the Eee PC 2G Surf. >Just curious! What SP version is on that Windows XP Pro install disc? Version 2002 SP3. My biggest complaint so far would be hibernation. It takes 1.5 minutes to hibernate and 30 seconds to revive. Heck it only takes 40 seconds to boot from scratch so not much of an advantage there. I imagine it's because of the slow (read cheap) write speed of the SSDs that Asus soldered into this model. But with drive space at a premium I can get an extra 500M by disabling hibernate anyway. So even if it was super fast I probably wouldn't have used it. My second complaint is that the video is still choppy. But with a 500MHz processor that probably is a given no matter what OS it runs. Otherwise the Surf is running fine on XP. I have everything I use most often installed now and it left a leeway of 300M on the drive. Just like the old days I have to keep a close eye on what the apps are doing on the drive. For example one wanted to install MS NET @ 100M+... =8-O >Retired your Palms? <sigh> I still use mine, although not a lot. My Palm TX is over 3 years old now and the old Blazer browser was having trouble getting into some of the local hotspots. That's the last of the Palm PDAs so I had to make a change eventually anyway. >iPod? Congratulations! I guess they are nice, never used one myself. It does everything my Palm did only better and faster. (It was a hundred bucks cheaper too.) >guess you really need a very large pocket before you can slip it into >one, eh? Were you thinking of the iPad tablet? My iPod (touch) is smaller and lighter than the TX with about the same size screen so actually a better pocket carry. Also it has much better battery life so things have improved all around.
From: AJL on 6 Jul 2010 12:30
"BillW50" <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >AJL typed on Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:50:36 -0700: >> BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >> I came into possession of a 'copy' of xp professional so thought what >> the heck I'll give it a try on the Eee PC 2G Surf. I hate to admit it >>(after our recent xp/linux wars) but it >> does seem a bit more snappy under xp. Course I've only been using it >> for a few hours now so we'll have to see... ;) >Well that is good to hear and to be honest, I am not surprised. ;-) I wonder if there is a key combination in XP that allows moving a too large window around on a small screen so that I can get to an 'ok' button that is off the bottom of the screen? In Xandros it is to hold the alt and left mouse buttons down while dragging the widow up. But I've been unable to find anything like that in XP. I do have an Asus app on the tray that changes the screen resolution and thus allows scrolling up and down the larger resolution to expose the 'ok' button, but I liked the Xandros way better. Surely Bill would have thought of this in his OS... |