I want to buy my dad this laptop. He only uses it for minor amounts of web surfing and checking his email occasionally. Nothing else. I was lookign at this laptop since its incredibly cheap and seems to be adequate for what he would being using it for. This is the one. http://www.staples.ca/en/Asus-EeeBo...MMC/product_1278921_2-CA_1_20001#desc_content My issue is the storage size (says 32GB eMMC) and the fact that it comes with windows 8.1 32-bit. Will the storage and the 2 gb of memory be enough for me to load windows 7 64-bit on? Or what problems will that create?
If you're planning on using windows 7 you may as well use the 32 bit version. Smaller disc space needed and I think its lighter on system ram If you're wondering, the ram in that can't be upgraded, soldered on. The emmc, maybe. But it looks like they've put a better one in since the eee 900 that could barely handle windows xp. 120mb read and 40mb write.
Depending on the config of the BIOS, you might have problems putting 7 32bit on it, I bought a little MiniPC and you can't disable secure boot / UEFI Apparently 64bit has a workaround to install in UEFI mode as long as the machine meets certain requirements http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...e-firmware-interface-install-windows-7-a.html
Last year female friend of mine bough one nice&small netbook sized lappy with 32GB eMMC and Win8.1 32bit, not sure but think it was some Acer. Did some maintenance on it, Windows Updates, Classic Shell, installed missing audio/video programs & codecs, AV & AS software, utility programs, browsers, OpenOffice.. and after CCleaner + Winapp2.ini + Trim.bat... still there was more than 10GB space left on that 32GB eMMC. iirc there was two SD card slots so we throw in 16GB SDHC Class 10 in one of those as a storage for her personal stuff (personal photos, documents..,)...
