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Asus EEE PC running on Windows XP - Impressions - TechAmok
Asus EEE PC running on Windows XP - Impressions - [hardware] 04:24 AM EDT - May,03 2008 - post a comment
InsideHW.com
has posted an article about Asus EEE PC running on Windows XP. Here's a bit:
For XP installation you need to have extern CD/DVD device, which is plugged
in EEE PC using USB interface. First thing you'll spot, after drivers
installation (drivers from package are installed with "OneClick" routine, which
is praiseworthy) is time needed for OS to boot up. Everything is working very
fast. Users familiar with optimization of XP should accomplish even better
results in this segment. We have installed Office 2003 with expectations for EEE
PC to work smoothly in Excel, Word, Power Point and similar. The biggest
problem of Asus Eee PC, besides little hard disc (which can be expanded thanks
to price and capabilities of SD cards) is display resolution. 800x400 pixels is
more than enough for "help out" but not for normal and easygoing work. EEE
has D-Sub connector and in indoor environment you can connect additional
monitor, but that won't help you if you find yourself in the outdoors. But there
is solution. You need to set graphics drivers to display larger resolution than
EEE's graphics chip offers you as default. We have been set virtual resolution
until 1024x768 pixels. Here is how it looks in practice. It can be seen only
small piece of desktop with chosen resolution. When you come to the edge of
monitor with your mouse pointer, it starts to scroll horizontally or vertically
and it moves to selected part of virtual display. That actually means that you
will have much larger desktop size. The greatest benefit of all has Photoshop
with all of its tool pallets. After installing video codec we even played a
couple of DivX and DVD titles and everything was working quite perfect.
When we plugged in our 37" test LCD TV 1366x768p we got a functional machine
for surfing, listening music, watching movies ... EEE PC become our home
multimedia center. But for complete pleasure we should watch some HD film, to
completely make use of our large external display. We tried with 720P video
material (we knew that a 1080P film won't do properly, because of weak CPU). The
whole time we had chops and we just couldn't enjoy the movie... But suddenly
we've realized that our EEE PC was working at 630 MHz but not at default 900MHz
(for Intel Celeron M353 CPU). So it seems that Asus has been underclocked this
CPU (reverse from overclock) to reduce power consumption, bigger battery
autonomy and lower heat dissipation. That actually makes sense if the laptop is
in move, but if it is connected on electrical power grid than the clock should
be set at 900MHz. Soon we come to conclusion that in BIOS doesn't exist option
for returning to standard CPU clock. So we resort to trick called "clock
generator" for motherboard. We had successfully overclocked CPU at stabile
950MHz and 720P video material just "took off". We got "ultra-portable"
multimedia player and Asus EEE usability got complete new use dimension. It is
interesting that overclocked Eee in full load mode was warming for only 3°C
(5.4°F) more than it was at 630 MHz with FSB at 70MHz.
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