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Asus Eee gets upgrade and Windows

David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 04 Mar 2008 18:49 GMT

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The Eee 900 will come with Windows XP as an option — at an extra cost of course, due to the licence. The operating system will benefit from the enhanced resolution of the upgrade Eee, at 1,024x600 pixels rather than 800x480 pixels. The older Eee 701 will also be made available in Europe with Windows XP. Both will go on sale in April.

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Put simply, what is the compelling reason to pay ~$200 extra for an Eee with Windows XP? A Windows Eee won't come with any useful applications and you'll have to buy anti-virus software to boot. The truth about low cost computing is that nobody really cares whether the machine is running Windows or Linux as long as its cheap, its easy to use and it works.