Dec 30, 2007 - I used to get some noise if I wasn't running VLC at fullscreen, but now. Do it if you (like me), have installed Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon on your Eee.
Should be picking one of these up tonight, standard apart from having 1gb of memory instead of 512mb, and I'll be sticking an 8gb SDHC card in there too. Think it comes standard with GNU Linux, but is there anything better than this? It's only ever going to be used to surf the internet with Firefox, but I want it to be as fast as possible whilst doing so, which could rule XP out, but hopefully someone knows better than me! I'd be installing any new OS form an 8gb USB pen drive too if this makes any difference to my choices. Thanks in advance.
Should be picking one of these up tonight, standard apart from having 1gb of memory instead of 512mb, and I'll be sticking an 8gb SDHC card in there too. Think it comes standard with GNU Linux, but is there anything better than this? It's only ever going to be used to surf the internet with Firefox, but I want it to be as fast as possible whilst doing so, which could rule XP out, but hopefully someone knows better than me! I'd be installing any new OS form an 8gb USB pen drive too if this makes any difference to my choices. Thanks in advance. There are treads about this on here already. Windows 2003 R2 is the best O/S if you want to go the Windows route as the install is smaller than XP and uses less resources at startup.
XP and Vista will both work - Vista being a tad slow. Use a 16gb SDHC card - also you can install extra internal USB ports and stuff them full of stripped down USB sticks to add further drive space. Mine is sat under my xmas tree and I'm not allowed to touch it until the 25th - stupid Christmas! If you want to try some differnt os's without having to install each one first try unetbootin Only registered and activated users can see links. I couldnt get on with eee ubuntu and im linux friendly, i also tried pupeee and a couple of the other eee remixed linux distros. It pains me to say it but my last (and still current) install of xp (home) ran like lightning, i had removed a load of shit (with nlite although do be careful not to kill stuff you might need in the future - its the devils own job adding stuff in!) for space sake and turned off stuff like paging memory etc.
I was running ffox, vlc and a load of other stuff and still had about 2GB free on the built in disc, using a 8GB SDHC card for some extra storage. When i picked the machine up I was expecting to be frustrated with the sluggishness of it in general and in reality I was very very pleased. If anything it's slightly faster for general use than my 1.6GHz multithreading atom based replacement for it, and it's only a 630MHz celeron out of the box!
Admittedly the xp and vista installs on my new machine arent 'optimised' at all though. Really dont write XP off, but do get 1GB ram.
With a little work, xp is spot on on the eee 701 4g. I didnt install the tinyxp i went with an oem disk id already got and it flys on here too and ive turned barely anything off, if anything ive added things to it (nod32) and its still pretty snappy, im not used to using windows (ive only been using xp and vista for the past couple of months which is why i keep going back to what i know there is one thing for me though that xp wins on hands down and thats the battery life, under any of the linux distros i get 2hrs if im lucky with the 3 cell (2200 mah) battery with xp im getting closer to 3 hours on the same battery.