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Wanna bet? A linux distro with ntfs read/write enabled will write all over your windows installation :lol: Plus that is pretty much a n00bish statement about drivers. In my case i have a few laptops already so even if i'd done much more research, the Asus wouldn't have been really used very much here I know normal flash memory ie SD cards etc have a finite life but i don't know if the type used in the Asus is any better Īs OzMick says, go see one for yourself, and yes, try a Linux live CD on any Windows PC you have access to. One was the non-standard video resolution (800x480, though some reviews say it's 800圆00 - either way i dislike spending half my browsing time moving sidebars around to get at all the text - remember most websites are designed for 1024x768 though a lot of us use much higher resolutions these days), the other was the flash memory as they don't have hard drives - i'm sure i read somewhere that these solid state things have a limited life. If i recall correctly there were 2 things that put me off these EEE PC's. I did quite a bit of reading up on this a while back as they looked interesting. I don't know if anyone here uses it (some guy had something similar, but had a knee jerk reaction and formatted it with Windows, ignore that thread), but I'm sure all will be quite willing to help you and find out for ourselves how it performs.Įmail address removed, Forum Rules are in my signature. ESPECIALLY on the Eee, it should almost all be there ready to use out of the box. Might take a couple of days to become as familiar with it as Windows, but you shouldn't have any problems with immediately doing all the basic stuff like internet, email, word processing, mp3, DVDs etc. If you want to know exactly how it feels on that particular system, head down to wherever is selling it and ask if you can have a play around on it.ĭon't be scared into thinking Linux is difficult to use at all either. Should have access to web browser, audio and video, office programs and a few basic games. Usually just a case of popping it in your drive, rebooting the computer and a couple minutes later you are running Linux and can take it for a test drive.
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If you want to know how Linux feels without spending much or even anything, either download a copy (absolutely free if you can manage the download) or drop down to your local newsagent and see if any Linux magazines have what they call a Live CD or DVD (something like Ubuntu is usually a safe bet, and is what most of these cheap laptops are derived from). You'll notice there is a little icon at the top right of my message - people can click that to send a private message. First, you shouldn't post your email address, makes it easy for spam to find you, hopefully creaky will remove it from the title soon.