I sell these solutions on ebay in the UK under userid portug04.

I am scared to buy a netbook now after this terrible experience with this model :/

XP on AAO with 512MB RAM and 8GB SSD:
- use nTune and strip everything useless from an XP ISO (search for which apps/services/drivers to cut);
- download and apply SP3 to the setup before installing (with nTune you can apply SPs to any existing XP setup);
- add the AAO drivers to the installation kit. Download and unpack the zips, put everything into a single folder and select it in nTune. Then, in the list, be careful to add only the 32bit ones;
- disable prefetching, autoupdate and useless stuff in nTune;
- install only on FAT32;
- eventually disable pagefile;
- eventually disable lastAccessUpdate and 8dot3FilenameCreation (registry).

The setup takes a while but you’ll be surprised after… XP starts in seconds, short and rare SSD-writing lockups, snappy response.

From my experience (2 days of testing): FAT32 was a major step forward due to lack of NTFS journaling, but the main difference was when I’ve put SP3. There must be some SSD-aware cache enhancements in it, looks like it gathers many small writes in RAM and applies them at once when the computer isn’t that used. Now I’m running Word, Excel, PP viewer, Outlook Express, Y!M and Skype without any problem.
Before that, it was hard to even open a web page.

After setup:
- install IE7 (well, you can also do that with nTune) or FF2/3;
- install Daemon Tools: double-click an ISO image and you have it mounted as a the fake CD;
- install AAO Fan Control (or AP1): no more noise, fan starts only at certain temp;
- eventually install Two Fingers Scroll: not that much for scrolling with two fingers but more for one+one right-click (while pointing with your finger you can tap another and voila, a natural right-click, like you’re tapping on a mouse);

I’m buying a new AAO, and I do want XP, and I do prefer SSD (++power/noise), but I really don’t know what to think? 3.06 MB/s…!?!? Gosh…

One guy has obviously done some “magic” to his AAO, because XP on SSD runs really *fast*…?

Installing Windows XP on a Netbook Via USB (Acer Aspire One)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vt_8p0VllY

hi I have the 8gb ssd version. with 512.

Installed 1gb extra RAM
Formated in FAT32
Installed Modified Windows xp sp2 (without unecesary services)
Tuned the system

I can say I have nice performance after that but
I was thinking in move out to the 120 hdd version, but when I realized that I just use the one for documents , web, messenger and work I think It`s not necessary due I never fill my hard drives and I had bad experiences with mechanic hdds in laptops too. Still cofused :S

AA1 150L with 120 GB HDD: I used USB_Multiboot_10 to create a bootable USB stick with installable XP SP3 (AA1 drivers and extras -IE7,Tiny Office, Virscan etc). Installed the whole thing in less than an hour. Runs very well.
Note: turn of d2d in the bios before installation, avoid Fat32. Use Nlite with your XP CD and add drivers, SP’s and addons before loading it to the AA1.

A lot of interesting comments here. I’ve had my 512M/8G One for about 2 months now, running the standard Linpus install. Several times Ive been tempted to install XP to give it more depth on apps that I know, but I’m still on Linpus.

What keeps me there is speed. The boot time is 17 seconds til the desktop is up 41 (17 + 24 more) till the wireless connects and is usable. It streams video and audio from the web without trouble, plays local audio and video, runs open office as well as my desktop (Linux OO must be *much* more efficient than the Win version) and does what 90% of what I used to use my other systems for.

And the best part? It was a slam dunk compared to 80211 enabled phones and tablet devices. At 299 (329 – 30 credit for getting an Amazon card) it was *cheaper* than an IPAQ, Palm TX, the Nokia880. Non-hackers wouldn’t *think* about replacing those OS’, and they can’t touch what the One can do.

Now that I’m finally off the fence about what to do with it, I couldnt be happier.

I spent about a day doing all the little hacks from this and various sites to get XP to run. Here’s what finally worked:

1) The C: drive is slow, so don’t write to it. I set up XP on C:, but the pointed all all temp directories for Windows and any other application software to the SDCard in D:. Further, all expensive applications (Office, Open Office, Notes, Acrobat, Paint Shop, Camtasia……) are all installed on D:, not C:. C is reserved for Windows and some utility software.

2) Once you do all that, you have to have ANOTHER SD card permanently resident in the other slot. XP just isn;t going to perform with 1-1.5 GB without a paging file, which you can’t put on C: because it’s too slow, and you can’t put on D: because that’s where your expensive applications are.

Once you get that second SD for the page file (you can put files out there, too — just no applications) XP really starts to hum on my 1GB system. But, if you need to go cheap, just buy a 2GB card for the E: drive. That’s plenty of page file.

So, you need to invest $50-100 bucks in SD cards in order to make XP work. If you bought the UNIX One without the harddrive (my buy was an impulse buy while traving in Malaysia, so I was stuck with it), and you need to run XP, that’s how to make it work.

I suspect that it would even run faster if I did a fresh install of optimized (see other posts on utilities to optimize and skinny down Windows) and slipstreamed Windows to D:, then used C for rarely access files and E: for the pagefile and other rarely accessed files, but for now, this is good.

The reason for the slow write performance is because of the way you formatted the hard drive.

I can’t remember which way round it is, but either NTFS or FAT have horrible read/write performance on SSDs, you just have to format it in the other mode and it will be speedy.

Well I tryed to install XP with ntfs and it was hours … To run the pc up to date was forever – and finaly I was thinking something is wrong.

I googled and found ntfs was totaly wrong. I reinstalled with fat and that was a lot faster – almost like normal.

I have concluded that SSD is not so fit on Xp – at least not the cheep stuff coming with Acer one. And they do supply XP version with a normal disk – it is for a reason.

Even booting from Acer One into XP was slightly faster then on a laptop ith disk – it is terrible to use with this disk. Maybe with a browser that do not write to disk it will be ok to browse internet.

I think HP delivers mini note with hardisk that parks the reading head.
This also have 800 vertical resolution – a much better choise.

“Scotty” posted the following and my AA1 with XP went from unusable to usable. Not great but good enough. Thank you Scotty!

“Simply turn of d2d in the bios and use FAT 32 and your problems will go away. Also switch off indexing and system restore if you want to eek some extra performance out of your AA1″

First I want to say that if your retailer retains 15% of your bill for ‘restocking’, you are being had. There is no such thing as a ‘restocking fee’. That was made up by dishonest companies who take advantage of most people not being consumer rights and legal experts to keep some of the money you’ve paid them when returning your purchase. Don’t let them do this!
Secondly, I am happy to find out that most netbook users here are happy to use their netbook for what it is supposed do. Looking round forums, it seems like these UMPCs are mainly bought by geeks who can’t wait to rip their guts open to upgrade hardware and change the OS. They then are surprised to find out that they don’t perform well as a result, then once they’ve outrageously voided the warranty, return it.
We’ll never get a gaming machine out of a £200 PC the size of a hardback.. Also, after moaning for years about Microsoft’s supremacy in our PC, let’s not start erasing our Linux OS’s to try and replace it with an outdated Microsoft OS. What sense does it make?
PS: Actually, I will change my OS: I am waiting for an official release of the netbook edition of Ubuntu. At least it still is Linux, I know it works with 512mb RAM, and even better: it is custom-made for netboooks…