eee PC, the Foleo of WM

[MannyPR]

Originally Posted by Zyphlin

Wow. I didn't realize the thing was under 500 bucks too.

Is it hard to throw WinXP on it?

I've been wanting a laptop to take with me to work, when I travel back home or other places, etc...but at the same time didn't want to pay out the ass or get some giant thing. This is...wow.

The thing reminds me of my old Jornada 820

I installed it with a standard XP installation CD without issues and the drivers are included in the CD that comes with the notebook so it is a smooth installation. I removed some stuff (like languages) after installation with XPLite which is much easier than nlite but nlite and many of the TinyXP versions (Rev 6 and Platinum 2) work well too.

Total installation after installing Office 2003 and some other programs came to 2.2gb so I still have plenty of space in the SSD and I also got a 16GB SDHC card for my documents. For less than 600 I got an UMPC running XP SP3 RC1 with 2GB ram and 20gb storage and a U727 Sprint USB broadband card to top it off. I could only be happier if I Seidio would come with an extended battery for it so I could get 5 hours without recharging.