EeeP!

[steuard]

I appear to unexpectedly be the owner of an Eee PC. I know very little about these things, but it seems to be a fairly high end recent model (EEEPC 1005HA), with an Atom 280 processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, multi-touch capability, and a bunch of other features. It apparently runs Windows XP, though I assume I could install Linux on it if I tried (though I'd need to figure out how to do that without an optical drive).

So, who out there has used these before? What sorts of things should I expect to work well, and what should I watch out for? Given that I'm reasonably comfortable with both Windows and Linux (despite being mostly a Mac person these days), is there any especially good reason to get rid of Windows? Either way, should I expect much trouble getting Firefox up and running?

It's very cute, regardless.

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Eeenteresting. Though unlike MacOS, Windows, and Linux, I know absolutely nothing about Chrome OS. (Really, pretty much zilch except the name and the vague impression that it maybe relies on cloud computing somehow.) What are its pros and cons? What's my inducement to learn a new OS?

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It apparently boots very very quickly.