I hate you all...

[jedi_diplomat]

With your pretty eeepcs and all. I want one. I have a very nice laptop but I want one. RAWR. Ok, so since I'm going down the slippery slope and all, I have a question. Um, how much space do you have free on your eeepcs. This would also go with how big of a drive did you buy? I'm looking at this one

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[lostandalone22]

I don't even have a laptop. I have an old Dell desktop computer, so yours has got to be better.

I wish I could help, but I don't know anything about computers, except that they're entertaining.

[jedi_diplomat]

I'm a bit of a tech junkie and I tend to move every few years, so my desktop regularly gets boxed up and sent on a slow boat and then I'd be with none. So I have a laptop and this would be um, a second one. *shifty look*

[wyndstormhntrss]

What a strange coincidence - I was actually thinking of getting one as well! My coworker just ordered one and she's bringing it in to work on Thursday so I can play with it.

One thing to consider is that it does have an SD slot so you could theoretically expand the storage to at least 4 GB (actually, it did mention SDHC, so I guess it could go up to even 32 GB).

[jedi_diplomat]

One thing to consider is that it does have an SD slot so you could theoretically expand the storage to at least 4 GB (actually, it did mention SDHC, so I guess it could go up to even 32 GB).

That is a very good point. I was considering if Xandros needed a page file. Or if they're computations that it needs about 2G of space for the OS takes that into consideration. The SDHCs are pretty cheap with a 16G being about 50 bucks or so. So not completely unmanageable especially if i just left the SD in the slot all the time. hmmm....

[wyndstormhntrss]

I'll make sure to look at free drive space on my coworker's machine tomorrow. I think she got the 4G Surf (definitely 4g, not sure if it's the one with the longer battery life, though).

Another quirk I discovered in my research - I don't recall the technical terms for it, but the machine is designed so that it can easily return to its shipped state. But in exchange, if you choose to update software on it, instead of replacing the original software, it writes the updated version of the software to a different partition, eating up more space than a clean install would.

[jedi_diplomat]

oooh, I didn't know that! Hmmm...might just break down and buy the 4G then. If nothing else so I have room to expand.

[epeeblade]

I want one too! I also want a pink one. I had heard they would be coming out with a 4gig pink model though...

[jedi_diplomat]

They do! They have the 4G pink model. And after all the great info that wyndstormhntrss I'm thinking of spending the extra 100 or so, because I really really want the pink one.

[temve]

What they (above) said - fresh out fo the box, about 1.3GB of space are available for you to fill with stuff - and considering that pretty damn comprehensive software package, that should read "files" really.

And yes, the SD card slot is pre-set up in the drive utilitiy to be the 2nd "hard" drive - since I won't be carrying a load of data around on this one, I haven't yet felt the need to buy an SD card but as they come in multiple-GB sizes these days you won't be wanting for space, and the SD card will sit quite firmly in the slot and not stick out at all.

[jedi_diplomat]

Oooh, that's good. But might not be getting the 2G one then as they said you only get about 340M of space and the processor is WAY underclocked (more than the 4G) and the RAM is soldered on. (eww)

This is all good info as I impulsed my HP and it's fine but not nearly as loverly as the Toshiba I used to have.

[temve]

The 4G's RAM is definitely user-replaceable (though the usual warranty-voiding crap applies if you do it yourself - unless you get it from a shop that does the RAM replacing themselves. Here in Germany, a few of them do and give you their own warranty for it), and the 512MB RAM on the 4G is defitiely fast enough to make the wee machine run just as fast as a 1GB RAM PC runnnig Windows :P

So yes, get the 4G, it's worth the extra cash and you're not likely to get frustrated by its speed or memory, ever.

[jedi_diplomat]

Oooh, that's good. I'm not so worried about the warranty as I think they put something out that negates the voiding the warranty thingy. And since in the fine print some of them are voided if you put them on transformers or tak them out of the country I tend to ignore it. LOL.

I bought the 4G pink one. LOL...I like pink.

[kris4n6]

huh. very cool looking!!! I'd never even heard of these before.

get the pink one! so cute. :)

[jedi_diplomat]

I know!! IT's so very cute! I hadn't heard of them either until Tem, Emu and a few others got one. Now I'm all having the envy.