Joshua Penix wrote:
On Mar 23, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote:
I am betting it won't be able to do as much as the Linux version due
to resource usage and lack of support for the hacked down XP install.
Sadly I'm seeing a lot of less-technical EEE users giving the Xandros
distro a quick spin, and then wiping it and loading Windows XP. The
worse part is that they tend to follow up a few days later with "hey XP
is so much smoother on this, I'm staying with it."
On modern hardware, even scaled down stuff like the EEE, Windows XP is
pretty tight and speedy (remember, it came out in 2001). There's
software called nLite that makes it ridiculously easy to strip down an
install well underneath the storage requirements of even the 2GB EEE.
I was about to make this comment as well. We're used to talking about
Windows as a bloated pig in the context of current Windows and current
hardware.
So, in 2001 that's probably something like a Pentium III 1GHz. Not that
much different from the EEE. And the EEE gets an advantage in that RAM
is faster, FSB is faster, and hard disk is faster (but smaller).
That's going to be a pretty nice XP machine. Of course, most people are
going to install a pirated version of XP, but that's another issue.
Contrast this against the bloated pigs that are Gnome and KDE combined
with weak Linux graphics drivers and interactive latency issues and you
have a walking advertisement for Windows.
-a
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