Eee PC - Great little thing - My story

[Guest CJ Rowlands]

I simply wanted to start a thread showing my apreciation for the little thing :D

i have a Eee PC 900 with XP on, and it runs quite well

i came to a slight problem  when installing office 07, but found a patch on the Eee PC site

then when i tried installing it, it said i hadnt enough space on my drive for the installation to continue

then i thought i would remove as much as i could, and stupidly removed the "ntldr" file, which is prety vital to XP booting

i now know to get around this lack of space, i could either install office 07 before downloading all of XPs security updates (all trillion of them) or i could simply relocate where the temporary files folder thingy is :angry:

a good thing came out of this though because i then ended up looking for a version of linux that i could use via a SD card, to collect all of my files before re-installing windows. I went strait for my favourite version of linux called puppy, and then found a version tailored for the Eee PC, which is called EeeTiger. This has something called compiz, which adds special effects to almost everything to do with the windows manager. My little Eee PC ran it really well, despite it being quite an intensive 3D program. 

Also, whilst still having XP, i used the program called "ProDesktop" which is a 3D design program, which is again rather processor intensive.

now, my desktop pc has 2GB ram and a 3.4 GHz Processor and yet, the Eee PC ran it better and smoother than on my pc :(

It really is incredible :D

now im just waiting for my usb dvd drive to turn up tomorrow so i can re-install XP and get back to using it normally, but im still keeping that linux version on a memory stick just to play with.

anyone else want to share their stories? not asking for help or anything like that, just sharing experiences you have had...