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Vuska | 2 years ago

I run this on my old Eee PC 900a from 2008. The SSD was upgraded from the stock 16GB to a massive 128GB, and the ram doubled from 1GB to 2GB.

I have most of Adobe CS6 installed along with Office 2010, the final releases of both packages that ran on XP. I realised to my horror, these are also the then-current versions that I used whilst I was at university. I wrote my dissertation in Word 2010 and some of the graphics were made in Fireworks CS6.

This was the only XP ISO I found that easily booted on the device too. I'm not sure what was added to it, but the final retail ISOs wouldn't boot into setup. I think I have the OEM CD somewhere, but I don't have any optical devices that can read it.

If the battery held charge better, I could see myself bringing it to conferences. Despite what Jobs said, I love netbooks and can type reasonably well on them.

It stands in stark contrast with my old iPad 2, which is more or less marooned on iOS 9. It can't be downgraded, and even if it could be, finding IPAs from the era is a nightmare.

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FirmwareBurner|2 years ago

>I'm not sure what was added to it, but the final retail ISOs wouldn't boot into setup.

I think it's the SATA, AHCI and all the other drivers they patched in in. Original XP ISO needed a floppy with drivers too boot SATA AHCI.