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Does the asus eee have a cd drive?


if it doesnt, how do you get xp on it?

The ASUS Eee unit does not come with an optical drive at all. You have several options for installing a different OS.

1) You can wait. The Eee is slated to arrive on Newegg.com with XP standard in the next couple of months. The 8G model is likewise planned along the same timeline.

2) A USB optical device, like a USB CD-Rom is one way to load XP on it if you cant wait for it.

3) In some cases, you can likewise put the XP CD on a thumbdrive. Using a program like Magic or Power ISO, you can copy the data, bit by bit onto a USB thumbdrive, and install it as if it were a portable CD Rom.

4) You can also go with linux. The one that comes with it is interesting, but you can hop onto another distro like Ubuntu as well, and with an added benefit of having the ability to run Windows within Linux, thats another option. Just remember, that the current Eee units only come standard with a 4gb SSD maximum. So option 1 is another reason you may wish to wait.

Do a Google search for reviews, they will probably tell you
whether or not it has one; I do not believe it has one,why do you want XP? try the OS that comes with it ;especially if its Linux -based.

No, but it does have usb ports and a card reader. There is undoubtedly a way to install using one of those mediums. You might have to get a small usb flash drive though.

I asked the question at my neighborhood computer store. They said it does not. They also said, if you use an external hard drive you can use xp on the eee through the external hard drive. Hope they are right.

God Bless,
Rev Ern

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