eeePC and Vista?

All the reviews i've seen to get eeePC to run Vista include resizing vista. If I got the 40GB or 80GB version(the 1000 or 1000H), would I run into any speed bumps installing it?

 

Why would you want to install Vista? It'd be horribly slow...

 

IMO Eee PC is definitely not designed for Vista.

 

just use xp

 

Or better still that other OS L....

 

Best OS ever
Well, OS X beats it

 

I probably will use XP, but how will it perform with a solid state drive? It doesn't seem like it'd be too bad: my GMA950 desktop runs Aero fine, the 1.6GHz exceeds Vista's requirements, the 1GB RAM seems fine for non-Aero, the 40GB is both big enough and fast enough, am I missing something?

 

Some people like having pain and frustration in life. lol

You have to remember that the CPU has a different architecture so the blanket statement of whatever GHz will not apply the same way here.

 

HDD is not the problem, RAM is the problem, Vista will need minimum 2 GB to run smoothly.

That's sad, but it's so true. :twitcy:

 

You realize just running an OS doesnt mean anything, right?
Even though the CPU is 1.6 GHz, its also not meant for performance like Intel's other CPU's(even though it'll run vista), the main bottleneck is going to be the GPU, even my notebook runs Vista fine with aero. But guess what? I have a faster CPU, and a loads better GPU.

^^True.

 

No you dont. My old T42 with 512MB runs Vista perfectly.

 

I really wont to see him opening firefox with about 30 tabs.
Then it'll slow down.
Does he even run Aero? I highly doubt it.

 

Perfectly? Did you strip it down with vLite? Most normal Vista installation, even with a lot of services disabled, it will still use about 600 MB of RAM at startup, I don't see how you can run Vista "perfectly" with only 512 MB of RAM.

 

Running it and running it well are two different things.
I'd love to see the EeePC running Vista, I really would.

 

vista home premium works perfect with my asus eeepc 4GB ssd + 2GB ram + vlite

just disable indexing and shadow copy.

 

Hey i want to install Vista on my PDA... how will it run?

 

Vlite brings it into something else.
I'd love to see some proof a normal EeePC can run Vista(without vlite).

 

Me too. ......

 

but really, it would install fine as long as you don't install it on one of those 4gb models.

 

I'm sure it will install fine, so is a 4 cylinders engine pulling 10 tons, it will move, just slowly.

 

Until you hit the wall(aka launching a program) where it just stalls

 

Just don't hit a wall (launch a program). :twitcy:

 

lol, congrats on 800 post!

 

lol I didn't even notice.

 

Speaking of which, can Dell Vista recovery discs be used in other brands?

 

EEE with Vista ultimate: http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2008/07/asus-eee-pc-901-with-vista-ultimate.html

 

^ No one said it cannot be installed, but I'm 100% sure that XP will run much faster in an Eee PC than Vista does.

 

Remember: people buying the eeePC are not trying to post blazing fast benchmark scores or render video. It seems to me the eeePC is for people who want a small and portable PC with acceptable performance. The jkk video shows Vista working with acceptable performance, in my opinion.

Jeremy

 

Listen to 1:55 mark of the video, he said he would installed 2 GB of RAM for any system running Vista, which I stated the same at the beginning of this thread. So if the OP really wants Vista on it, then he/she should consider adding more RAM to it.

 

For now my T42 (see sig, has 2GB of RAM) is running Ubuntu, so I don't feel very motivated to replace it with Vista... but my curiosity might get the better of me.

Btw, technically the EEE PC is Vista Capable, however this marketing term has gray areas:

Minimum Requirements (Vista-Capable PCs):

* 800 MHz Intel-compatible processor
* 512MB of RAM
* DirectX 9.0-Capable Graphics Processor
* 20GB HD

 

Sorry for bump but my 1000H ran horrible with Vista trial. XP and linux is usual OS *until* win7 beta. WOAH, all the GUI goodies of Vista + more and runs fast (faster at times?) as XP.

Can't believe I'm saying this but I am loving a Microsoft OS! Crazy for me, I've been using Linux for 17 years (google groups evidence of my use archived from 93, so I have 'some' proof ), but yes, Win 7 makes the oxymoron, Microsoft is great

 

I have the Asus eeePC 1000h and can attest that Vista runs better on it than XP. I upgraded the memory to 2gb for cheap. It comes with XP but after installing all my programs it ran like molasses and this is also true when I clean installed the unit to XP Media Edition. I installed Vista Ultimate and am happy with it... runs faster and memory is being used more efficiently. Battery lasts for 5 hours for net surfing on balance mode the screen brightness set to middle.

I have lots of programs on it and it hasn't crashed at all.

Installed progs:

MS: Office 2007, Money, Trips & Streets
Roxio Ultimate 2009
Adobe: Acrobat, CS4
Canon Zoom Browser
IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera
Panorama Factory
iTunes
and others programs and utilities

Total programs installed: 65gb on a 160gb HDD. I will be upgrading it to a WD 500gb HDD soon. This will also be used to store images from digital cameras and camcorders besides net surfing when I travel. The other option I did was to buy an external DVD drive/burner.

My other laptops and tabletpc is getting used less and less nowadays. You have to install a couple of programs/drivers to take advantage of the built it key combo.. ACPI drivers which is not difficult to find and install.

 

why do you all need proof to see the eeePC run vista.

there are only two questions to answer to know if you can run vista:

does the gpu have dx9
do you have enough ram (2gb would be great)

if you can answer those two with yes, vista will run great. the faster the hdd, the better.

cpu is largely irrelevant. i run vista on a 1.2ghz core2duo and it runs as fast as it runs on the quadcore 2.4ghz at home. certain apps are slower, but not the os.

 

Visa runs well on the EEE, you need the 2gb ram upgrade for it to run smooth and there is a hacked file for the control buttons so you do not get the driver error and thats about the only two obsticals to overcome.

If your doing things like movies or games that use almost all of the EEE's power it will run better in XP though.

For every day stuff like web surfing Vista is actually better as it has better battery life.