On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:

I think the general intent is that disk space, like RAM is cheap and
they don't much care about wasted disk space.

My new Acer Aspire One. Windows XP SP3 w/ Open Office (MS Office Trial
version removed), AVG Free 8.0 (MacAfee Trial version removed), Acrobat
Reader, Flash, Firefox, Thunderbird weighs in at just under 10 Gb.
Fedora 10, a fairly robust install with both Gnome and KDE and a lot of
games and applications, just under 5 Gb.

Obviously on an SSHD system, space is a premium which is why all of the
Acer Aspire Ones w/ SSHD are Linux only.

Craig

I got an eee 701.. managed to load XP on an SD card but then Office wouldn't install right (kept aborting during install because it didn't like where it was installing to).
I ended up going to Mandriva. I chose Mandriva because it supports all of the hardware even from the livecd. I run XP in a virtual machine when I need it from an external laptop drive.
It fits in my brief case along with all the cables/etc I need and portable DVDRW. I got it to tether to my cell phone to get on the internet. I can't say it's a machine I'd do work on all day unless I could plug it into a KVM but it's a GODSEND...

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