***The Official Asus Eee PC Thread***

anyone know if its gonna be possible to put itunes on it? so i can transfer music from my ipod from an external hard drive?

also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive could be quite useful for gmail users if its always gonna have a net connection :D

quite interested in one of these now! but need to save money :(
 
Its possible to put iTunes on it with windows XP... but under the default OS I had no luck - even explicitly following a guide to get an older version running under wine I could install it fine but then when I tried to launch it absolutely nothing would happen... it would just sit there doing nothing for 10+ minutes...
 
Rroff said:
Its possible to put iTunes on it with windows XP... but under the default OS I had no luck - even explicitly following a guide to get an older version running under wine I could install it fine but then when I tried to launch it absolutely nothing would happen... it would just sit there doing nothing for 10+ minutes...
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When i run windows programs I need to right click the exe and go open with, I then type wine in the box. This loads up no problems, if I just double click the exe nothing happens.
 
I am so glad I stumbled upon the site I got mine from, when I did. They ran out of stock within an hour of me ordering.
 
Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but if I made a word document on whatever the software is on the eee pc, would I be able to transfer it over to my windows pc and open it up via word processor in office?

Also (and I know this has been mentioned before, but I cant find it) how well does xp go on the eee pc. After doing and install of xp, how much memory do you have left? And how easy is it to have a cut down version of xp?

Thanks lads :)
 
Bengaboy said:
Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but if I made a word document on whatever the software is on the eee pc, would I be able to transfer it over to my windows pc and open it up via word processor in office?

Also (and I know this has been mentioned before, but I cant find it) how well does xp go on the eee pc. After doing and install of xp, how much memory do you have left? And how easy is it to have a cut down version of xp?

Thanks lads :)
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you can fit a streamlined winxp install on it, and remove further stuff you dont need after that, i know someone who got his just over 3gb with allot of faffing around.

as for documents, it uses open office which preety much supports every format known. and you can download openoffice for free for xp/linux as well so youd have no probs there
 
openoffice is the software on the eeepc, yes you can, you can save/open in all sorts of file formats. Cutting down XP is easy, it only takes about 700mb up, and people have been compressing stuff aswell i think, so you have over 3gb left on it.
 
my mildly opptomised Windows XP Tablet Edition SP2 w/ updates and a bunch of extra software installed only takes up 1.8gig on disc...
 
I've tried everything on mine to get xp to install.


Im using an app called PetoUSB ...allowing me to rip my nlited version of xp onto the memory stick.But every time i boot form the usb stick it pops up with:

'File \$WIN_NT$.~BT\biosinfo.inf could not be loaded.
The error code is 18
Setup cannot continue.Press any key to exit.'

I've tried everything...2 usb sticks 4 versions of windows including OEM and retail.

and still get the same.

As anyone an idea as to what the problem could be?

Thanks
 
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