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"Good little computer with big design flaw" on by pp747
Pros: Great weight and shape. Boots up surprisingly fast.
Cons: The 12GB 901 has two 4GB and 8GB hard drives. The XP operating system is installed on the 4GB drive. As a result, as soon as Windows updates, the C: drive fills up and you get low space warnings for the C: drive, and the drive becomes sluggish.
Summary: There is no way for the user to install the operating system on the larger drive. Why they split it up into two drives is beyond me. Definitley a big design flaw. If it wasn't for this serious shortcoming, the 901 would be a home run out of the park.
This computer was the perfect size and weight for me. But I have reluctantly decided to return this to Costco becuase of the small 4GB C: drive filling up when windows is updated. I recommend that the operating system be put on the 8GB drive, or better yet, install a single 12GB drive.
Updated on Aug 27, 2008
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Oh please.. Do some research! Of course you can put whatever OS you want on whatever drive you'd like! I -and many others- have dual boot on our eeePC's. I'm currently having a linux distro on the 4GB, and windows 7 on the 16GB.
As for Asus putting drives into the different models, they usually have their reasons. And again, if you did some research before you flame, you would maybe notice that these SSD drives (which is what you have in your eeePC) are very expensive, actually they get more and more expensive the bigger they get! Also the 4GB is a faster drive than the 16GB one, making it even more expensive..This should give you a hint for why they put two different drives in.
Anyway, as stated by others here, you could allways do lots of tweaks to your xp/vista/whatever OS you are running, making it smaller. Google is your friend :) -
so how about a computer that you buy, turn it on, and use it, without having to "setup" or "configure" so that it doesn't crap out in a matter of days, that's just ridiculous
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I Would agree with this complaint but it is easily resolved with a little know how and the right equipment:
External CD drive, Copy of the OS cd *OR* a copy of Acronis/Symantec Ghost and a USB thumb drive. The OS CD method is obvious, but if you want to clone the Drive you could use the acronis/ghost CD to clone the 4gb drive to the 8gb drive or image the 4gb drive to a usb thumb drive, reboot, then move the image to the 8gb drive. Not Impossible, you just need the right tools. -
I agree with you totally! I bought one last weekend and before use downloaded Norton 360 and Guess What? C: drive full!
I never knew it had 2 drives untill I read your mail, it has been sent back, as I do not need the hasle of playing with 2 drives!
I have now ordered the Samsung NC10, one drive and simple!
A pity as it is a nice looking Notebook! -
The trick here is to move your My Documents folder to the 8GB drive. You can also create a Program Files folder there and install applications. It's also helpful to update your Temporary Internet Files settings to use the 8GB drive.
There's also a directory in XP that stores downloaded OS patches, etc, and that can be removed entirely. That alone freed up almost 400MB on my 4GB internal. -
pp747 brings up an excellent point about the hard drive problem...has cnet addressed this?
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