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Originally Posted by hung
can your 8G run xp smooth, basic4ppc smooth and can browse internet smooth? u install xp by yourself? easy?
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I actually have a 4G with an additional 8G SDHC card that I leave permanently in the built-in SD card reader so I have a 4GB C: drive and an 8GB D: drive under XP.
Yes, it runs everything very smoothly. The processors' delivered clock speed is 630MHz although the processor is rated for 900MHz and the delivered RAM for far more than that. It is presumably underclocked to get a better battery life but the speed is quite adequate for just about anything except gaming - the graphics isn't really up to that either. There is an under/over clocking utility here
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=8808 Mine runs well from 400MHz to 900Mhz. I haven't tried it but the slower speed supposedly gives about an extra half hour battery life over the normal life of about 3 hours if you are just doing normal office tasks
I installed XP myself. It was very easy if a little slow and there are detailed step by step instructions in the manual that comes with it. Asus supply the necessary Windows XP drivers on a DVD so you need a USB DVD reader to install them - or copy them to a CD on another machine if you don't have one. To install XP itself you need a USB CD reader although some people on the forum I gave above have managed without. The original XP release will not install properly but XP SP1 (which I used) will, although installing the SP2 update afterwards takes a few hours! It is easier to use an XP SP2 disk. You need to clean up afterwards to regain a lot of space and although there is a list of what you can remove in the Asus manual it is not complete. If anyone gets one and wants to know what I did then just ask.
There is a lot of knowledge (and a lot of misinformation too) on the forum.