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Two Months with my Asus eeePC

Back in August I replaced my aging 15.4 inch Sony laptop with an Asus eeePC 900 . This is somewhat of a review of my experience so far; wrestling with various operating systems and my impressions of the hardware. Specs The particular eeePC 900 I purchased from Newegg has the following specs: Celeron M processor clocked @ 900Mhz 4 GB Solid State Drive for OS 16GB Solid State Drive for data Xandros Linux 1 GB DDR2 RAM 1024x600 8.9-inch screen webcam/microphone/vga out/sd reader Operating Systems First try...Egg I decided to give the pre-loaded, linux based, Xandros OS a chance. The very first impression I had of it was quite positive. It booted EXTREMELY fast. In fact, the fastest boot of any operating system I have ever seen; 20 seconds. Once I logged in I quickly found my way around the simple tab based interface. It reminded me a little bit of Geo Works (an operating system that was on my first computer; a Laser 386.) I did my best to connect in my work email, extend firefox, customiz