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Originally Posted by PocketHead
+1 for the linux, I run everything off mine. If you do need windows though you can just buy an SD card and chuck it on there and run 2 Os's.
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Exactly what I would like to do! But HOW? I see bits and pieces of how to's for installing Windows to USB, but all for over-baggaged versions of WinXP.
I have the Eeepc1000, it runs the original Linux (Xandros) very well. But I want to run one single application / hardware that insists on Windows XP, the MagicJack, a $20/year phone service device which uses USB. It doesn't need MSIE, Windows Media Player, all the extra services. Just a basic WinXP OS.
Find a free access Wifi AP with your EeePC while out biking or camping, boot to an SD card OS (WinXP), plug in your MagicJack and a small phone, and talk for 'free' - even when traveling abroad! Call US/Canada, receive calls from anywhere, no strings. AND... all from a lightweight EeePC (with a special SD card), and without replacing it's original -and very functional Linux OS.
The EeePC (1000) has great battery life and is only 2.9 lbs., and adding this function to all that would result in a portable phone line anywhere I go with the added bonus of no international roaming charges. There's got to be an easy way to make this happen...
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