>I was wondering, Does the bios let you boot from an SD card? If it does you 
>could
> buy a relatively cheap 8G SDHC card and but windows on that for when you 
> need it.
>
> FYI. I've just put windows on an old 633MHz celeron with 256MB of ram, it 
> seems
> to work reasonably well actually, the basic install took 2GB including 
> 393MB for the
> pagefile, after installing all the patches it grew to 3GB then Dropped 
> Back to 2.6GB
> after deleting obvious files. On the ASUS if you had 2GB of ram you would 
> need to
> disable the virtual memory which would get the install back to about 
> 2.2GB, which
> sounds quite usable.
>
> Richard
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carey Fisher" <careyfisher@ncsradio.com>
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [PIC] Anyone using the ASUS EEE notebook for PIC work?
>
>
>>  <http://www.ncsradio.com/>
>>
>> Marcel Duchamp wrote:
>>> Anyone using the ASUS EEE notebook for PIC work?
>>>
>>> I have been thinking about a lightweight tool to take to work and home
>>> that can run MPLAB and an ICD2 for PIC work.
>>>
>>> The EEE marketing droid speak on the ASUS website indicates that it can
>>> run XP.  I'm curious as to whether anyone has done this and has any
>>> input on the subject.
>>>
>>>
>> Marcel,
>> I bought one just for that purpose - small and carry to customer to
>> upgrade firmware
>> using PicKit2. I'm convinced it will run XP well if you reduce the size
>> of XP using the
>> various programs used to reduce distro sizes.  I've tried WINE but can't
>> get very far.
>> I love the eeePC (Skype with video is GREAT!!!) but will probably
>> install XP just for PicKit2.
>> Carey
>>
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