"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
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> In news:9m2045d9g4dv8c2r3ae6pgtlo4mevfjfg0@4ax.com,
> AJL typed on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:20:57 -0700:
>> "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>>
>>> 4G netbooks can't even handle XP with SP3.
>>
>> That is a problem with very small SSD netbooks. They pretty much are
>> limited to Linux. And the general public doesn't seem to care much for
>> Linux so I imagine that they will go the way of the Palm Pilot... ;)
>
> Naw... Windows 2000 SP4 only needs 700MB and runs very well on netbooks.
> At least on the Asus netbooks anyway. Still lots of new copies of
> Windows 2000 being sold on eBay too.
>
> --
> Bill
> Windows 2000 SP4 (5.00.2195)
> Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
>
>

Yes, the eeePC701 4gb 2g Ram 16g SDHC Card does very well with Win 2000, but
there are several programs I use which don't play well with W2000 so I still
run the full version of XP SP3 with all updates and the 701 does very well
with it. No, I don't do Photoshop or Video editing on it, but I have most
common programs installed plus garmin GPS and HAVA Video streaming and am
using approx 2.4gb of the 4gb SSD. Plenty of room on the 16gb SDHC for large
files and I have put several large programs(GPS) on the card with no
noticable performance loss. Of course I can still plug in a second 16gb card
via USB card reader for movies, etc. If I need to use some of the larger
programs on my main computer I just connect up to it via www.logmein.com and
run anything I want remotely from anywhere I have internet access. I don't
use a swap file or hibernate to save hd space and this has never caused my
performance to suffer....<wink><grin> and a big (:>)