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Images can be pinched or unpinched with the thumb and forefinger to zoom in and out, and two fingers can be used to scroll up and down Web pages.

The zooming only works with select software--for example, we could zoom a photo in the Windows image viewer, but not in Firefox. It's still fairly hard to use for any length of time, especially now that we've seen a couple of tiny laptops Lenovo's U and HP's Mini-Note with nearly full-size keyboards. One of the major benefits of the bigger screen is its higher resolution.

At 1,x, it's still on the low side, but it's a major improvement over the original Eee PC's x resolution, which made most Web sites hard to read, and left little room on the desktop for icons and files. The SD card slot offers a good opportunity to boost the hard-drive space, letting you pop in your own flash memory, adding to the built-in 12GB 4GB is on the motherboard, and there's an 8GB SSD chip under a user accessible panel on the bottom of the system.

That's still not a lot of space for files and applications and less than the 20GB that the otherwise identical Linux version supplies--your bounty for skipping the cost of an XP license.

Still, for basic Web surfing and working on office documents, the Eee PC's underpowered processor suffices, as long as you keep your expectations modest. The Eee PC lasted an impressive 3 hours and 22 minutes in our video playback battery test, with its four-cell battery. Asus covers its laptops with a standard, one-year parts-and-labor warranty, and it offers online Web-based help and a toll-free phone number. The company's support Web site includes the expected driver downloads and a brief FAQ but lacks useful features such as user forums or the chance to chat in real time with a technician.

Find out more about how we test laptops. I was under the impression that there were some files in a small partition of the hard drive that would be able to restore to factory conditions with bloatware etc?

This may be caused by the Boot Booster option. If your computer have this option enabled, it will remove the computer's BIOS screen. This is why you cannot access BIOS no matter how many times you press a key on the keyboard. Please disable it first. Then, go to the Boot tab and disable Boot Booster. Below are the steps.

Step 1. Power on the notebook and continuously press F9 until you see a loading screen. Step 2. We understand fully why it has done this, but we can't say we're happy about sacrificing nearly 50 per cent of storage just to have Windows XP. It's good -- but it's not that good. One significant drawback with using Windows XP is that the graphical user interface is far tricker to get to grips with than the Linux GUI.

The Linux edition has logically arranged tab group labeled 'Internet', 'work', 'learn', 'play', 'settings' and 'favourites', each of which contain relevant application icons. Windows, in contrast, is more confusing -- particularly for anyone who isn't very experienced with a computer.

It's no surprise to learn that the XP version doesn't ship with as many useful applications as the Linux edition. Applications such as OpenOffice and Skype don't come as standard, and although you can install these apps yourself, it would have been comforting to have them sitting there ready for use straight out of the box. The other drawbacks with the Windows version of the Eee PC are identical to those of the Linux model.

The keyboard is uncomfortable to use if you have large hands, the speakers are utterly rubbish, and there's no built-in 3G Internet access -- at least not until Asus decides to release a 'Surf' edition like it did with the Eee PC Conclusion We can't really recommend the Windows version of the Eee PC over its Linux counterpart, primarily because you get nearly twice as much storage space in the Linux version.

Sure, Windows XP offers a degree of familiarity its Linux brother can only dream of, plus inherent compatibility with an almost endless supply of hardware and software. If you really can't live without XP, then the best course of action is to buy the superior Linux version and install XP yourself. April 18, a. Keyboard is fiddly to use; no 3G datacard. We can't really recommend the Windows version of the Eee PC over its Linux counterpart, primarily because you get nearly twice as much storage space in the Linux version.

If you really can't live without XP, then we recommend buying the superior Linux version and installing XP yourself.