question to Asus g1 owners

HI! i'm 100% convenced to order g1 and i have a question does it have actually XP MCE cd, or it comes with recovery cd only, whats the difference?


EDITED:
another question:
when you got yours G1, how many free gb's do you have (like 150 or so?) and how many partitisions did you get?how much memory each?
is there a link to make NTFS>?
Is there lots of crap preinstalled>?]

 

It is Xp MC but I think it comes with all the Asus utilities + drivers pre-installed.
Someone please double check me if I am correct since I have not yet used it

 

Yes only the recovery disk

 

After trying to "reformat" with the recovery CD is when I realized, "Hey, this is just a recovery CD, shoot." But there is an easy trick to just get a fresh install of the OS, as when it asks you to put in the driver/utility CD, don't and let it time out or reset it. I did it and upon turning it back on I just had the fresh OS install only. I will admit to you if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't have bothered. Getting all the drivers in took forever and I pretty much had them all installed because I was afraid of not including some, but I still avoided some of the crap I didn't need. All in all, meh....

-rye

 

Does it matter that you need the actual XP cds? Additionally if you buy a G1 now, you can get the Vista cds free.

 

just replied it to put on top, cause i edited it by adding couple question in 1 thread =)

 

It came with 149.05Gb's of space. I remember that there was a 3Gb recovery partition but I am not sure about the other ones and how big they were (since I did a clean install of vista and I arranged all the partitions to my liking). I think though that there were 2 other partitions, an 80Gb one and 57Gb one (someone please verify this?).
There is a NTFS converter on the desktop so when you wish you can convert your system from the default FAT32 to NTFS. Yes there is a lot of programs that come with the G1, over 70 processes. That was the reason that I did a clean install.

 

Thanks for info

 

OK thanks and what about Vista? you already got it? did you get it with coupon or you already had one of free almost ready Vista's?
If itsoriginal ready Vista- what type are you using? How is it going?
thanks for answers!

 

I am getting one with a coupon (Home Premium) but I also have one of the "almost ready Vista's." I am running the ultimate version and so far so good. The only problem is that a lot of the asus utilities don't work. Also I had problems installing the video card driver, since it took quite a while to find one that would work.

 

ok thanks, later i might have couple question when i get mine)

 

razp,

You said you installed vista so I'd like to see where you could find the drivers for the Asus stuff (Asus site doesn't have them). Like, I cannot get the function keys working well.

 

I could not get them working as well...and after a while I erased vista due to a lot of the Asus utils not working ...so i guess wait until asus updates them

 

I'm waiting on installing Vista until the Asus drivers come out.

 

I just installed VIsta 2 days ago. I guess I'll just wait for the drivers. It's too much of a hassle to format and install xp again. I bet the drivers will be just around the corner as the Vista preloaded version are hitting the stores next week.

 

Asus will post drivers after they start shipping their models with Vista..... I know a lot of people (myself included) have already installed some version of vista.... but just like every other company at this point - no one is releasing any drivers until after vista is released...... This is mainly because if they offer up those drivers they have to also offer up support - and they're simply not ready to do that yet. Give it a month.

 

What Vista version did you get? The 32 bit or 64 bit version? What would be the ideal version to get? I'm having a hard time choosing between the two.