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I just signed up and this is my first post, I only wish it were under more agreeable circumstances. I just bought the Asus 900 Eee PC with the single 16GB SSD "hard drive" option and Windows XP, SP3.

Let me say, this has to be the slowest PC I have used in 15 years.
I used a stop watch to time how long it takes to open/close things like Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer. It takes 17.34 seconds to open them and 9.79 to close them. I have nothing installed aside from what Asus provided. I did upgrade to 2GB of system memory.

I tried adding a 16GB SSD to add some space for the swap file but it did not help.

I called Asus, the "tech agent" if he can even be called as such said this is the kind of performance I can expect and to get used to it.

I was so annoyed, I just hung up on him.

Please tell me that this is not indicitive of what I can expect, it is meant to be a birthday gift for someone and I would have to return it if this is what I can expect out of it.

I understood that the performance of the EEE 900 / 901 models with XP was reasonably OK for a basic machine... Certainly far better than running with Vista. I have a 701 running linux and a 1000H running XP. Now I know the 1000 has more ram and an actual disk rather than an SSD but both are acceptable performance in their own way..

I would try turning swap off altogether, and perhaps upgrading ram.. Certianly swapping to SSD is going to be counterproductive.

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Thanks for the reply.

I tried with the swap file enabled│disabled. No performance change.
I tried with the visual settings set to performance, no change.
I upgraded to 2GB ram, no change and I ran the Asus restore DVD
and it was ok for the first 30 minutes of use. After that, back to
being slow and 17 seconds to open EI or Windows Explorer.

I contacted the reseller about changing the unit for a conventional
HDD version, Asus Tech support told me the single 16GB SSD systems are showing performance issues.