Comments on: Asus Eee PC 900 Press Launch Highlights

By: rauy

rauy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:15:48 +0000

MS is not helping the umpc’s imho. What Redmond is doing is just riding on the popularity wave of such as the Eee PC and does not contribute to the concept of umpc computing.
True, they’ve slashed off some $ on XP Home but have not made tweaks like other Linux distros out there(Mandriva for instance) have made.
Instead of having umpc’s get larger screens and consequently higher price, why don’t the folks at MS make their OS more tailored the modest hardwares of this type of devices? Perhaps resize dialogue boxes and stop that alert balloon bugging us that it the screen real estate on our Eees/MSI’s/Aspire Ones is not up to its tastes?
well?

By: Igor

Igor — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:35:55 +0000

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Best wishes

By: A. Cantos

A. Cantos — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:17:08 +0000

Thanks for your comments. And oh, I don’t mind flodding :). But hate spamming.

By: Igor

Igor — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:21:41 +0000

Oh, and I just remembered, MS changed the limitations on hardware for an xp live license, now the atom CPU is an exception, they will allow it…
(sorry for flooding)

By: Igor

Igor — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:18:32 +0000

Yepp
It is not so intelligent from them, because the persons willing to have xp on the eee pc to play games will just buy the linux version and install an xp license they have… or don’t have
imho, the stock Linux does serve a basic use well. I showed the eee to older relatives that never used a computer before, no problems.

Cheers

By: Aldrin Cantos

Aldrin Cantos — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:52:42 +0000

@Igor, you have a good point. And notice the 8GB price for the XP license?

By: Igor

Igor — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:22:50 +0000

Nice reporting, thank you!

I can understand MS is trying to undermine the linux production on the low cost market, but their methods are wrong (I’m referring to the hardware limitations they are trying to impose for a license, if you look at them even the eee pc 900 will be not eligible when Asus starts to sell it with Atom processors).

Works really can’t stand a chance against openoffice for productivity.