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I am sure the Linux distro on the current Eee is nice, but I am a really big fan of XP, not so much in its pre-SP1 state, but its running a lot better these days and I like it. Well, now Asus is shipping XP equipped Eee’s in Japan and the US is supposed to be getting a similar option sometime next month.
Sadly its only Home edition, but I would assume that is due to the fairly weak hardware found in the Eee, but with this upgrade, if it doesn’t cost much more, I might even try catching myself and Eee. It’s the same laptop as before, but the OS change seems to only be available in the 4GB model for now.
As I said, they’ll only be available in Japan for now, where they’ll be charging $468 for the optional OS upgrade. A $69 premium for Windows XP isn’t bad at all, I wonder what kind of deal they had to cut with the devil in Redmond to get this done though?
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any idea if they’ll still be selling xandros versions, or is asus going to sell these with only windows on it? the xandros distro on the eee doesn’t seem too impressive and i would rather just install debian in its place, but since windows would raise the price of the unit, why bother paying for a windows license that i’m not going to use.
i dont like window linux…eeewwww
I read that linux will be on there, but there’s some information either in the packaging or on the computer itself that tells you how to get windows. but apparently, its still a very scaled down version, specifically “built” for the Eee..