Our friends at Liliputing have taken some time out to endow his Asus Eee PC 1000H with triple boot capability. The usual suspects are Windows 7, Windows XP and CrunchEee Linux – and all three of them take approximately a minute to boot into a fully useable desktop, which is a pretty good testimony to those wondering whether netbooks have enough processing muscle to handle Windows 7 well or not. While you won’t expect your netbook to multitask efficiently with processor-intensive applications running in the background, it is still the perfect tool for casual web browsing, emailing (although running Outlook might be a minor problem since that is such a resource hog), as well as performing basic tasks on productivity software like Word or Excel. How do you view the netbook – is it a supplement to your daily computing needs, or have you turned it into your primary means of getting work done?
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