http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/ Engadget Comments for ASUS throws XP Professional on Eee PC 1005HA, dubs it 'business edition' http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Its a 10 year old OS. Of course its gonna run fast... when it came out, what was the average memory on a computer, 256mb? yeah... if you want a lightweight OS, switch to a linux distro or stop living in the past and update to something more current.]]>Oct 20th 2009 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/
no ION + no Win 7 == massive fail.

especially at $700]]>Oct 20th 2009 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oh well, at least it doesn't have Windows 7 Cripple, I mean Starter.]]>Oct 20th 2009 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Great... now put Ubuntu on one (Ubuntu + Android) and call it the "intelligent edition".]]>Oct 20th 2009 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/
I've been running Win7 as my primary OS for a while now, and other than spotty driver support have no complaints. I got everything running, but it would be nice if Asus updated their drivers to go with an OS less than a decade old.]]>Oct 20th 2009 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/1 GB of RAM. This also explains the huge price markup (but not THAT high of a markup!) The licensing the makers have with Microsoft restricts the amount of memory to 1 GB of RAM max. on netbooks. This is Microsoft's restriction.]]>Oct 20th 2009 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/Oct 20th 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/asus-throws-xp-professional-on-eee-pc-1005ha-dubs-it-business/
XP is archaic. Get over it.]]>Oct 20th 2009 9:47AM