My bro came home with an Acer Aspire One. He asked me to format that toy to a WinXP, from its original operating system, a Linpus Linux Lite. So, I go ahead and search for a tutorial, cos this netbook doesn’t come with a optical drive. I found a great video tutorial on it.
Behold!!! 17″ screen vs 8.9″ screen. Captured when I was formating the Aspire One.
The Aspire One is pretty amazing. It’s small, it’s fast, and it’s convenient. Too bad I was gonna format it to the bulky WinXP. The Linpus works pretty well if you just want to use it to go online in a cafe, or get your documents done, but can be quite limited if you plan to use it as your media player. Certain video files just won’t work, and installing codec can be a headache for a non Linux user like me. From the guides I read on the net, there are ways to overcome this incompatibility by installing VLC alongside with the preinstalled mplayer, but I was too lazy to read on cos I am going to format it to XP.
So anyway, the whole process of formating and installing all the drivers took about 2-3 hours to complete. I used nLited version of WinXP to fit it into the Aspire One. I was too afraid that it will get too laggy because my friend told me that Windows running on SSD drives is like driving a Mercedes on a Kancil engine. It will be very slow. I tried all the optimization trick that I found on the web, and everything works great without much problem
Oh, not forgetting, games. Yes. Games. I copied Warcraft 3 and played the damn popular DotA Allstars on the Aspire One. Amazingly, it can run with 8MB video memory allocation.
It’s amazing how this little netbook can run a 3D game without much problem.