As you can see from the photo, the “special” SDHC  eeePC application specific and the 2 gig SODIMM arrived from Geeks [$30.50 for the 8GB SDHC, and $39.50 for the memory, S&H $11.00, $81.00 total].  As fast as the two screws over the memory slot could be removed, the memory was installed, and the SDHC installed in the eeePC SD slot. A  quick look @ Help in the Control Panel verified 2 gigs of memory, and going to My Computer showed the 8 gig Drive “E” to be working under FAT32. We’re good to go with these two upgrades.

I have been noticing that the wireless network capability of the eeePC is whimpy. All of the other wireless notebooks and my iPhone work great on my LinkSys wireless “G” network. Today I popped for a LinkSys “N’ system, and a Wireless USB - N Network Adapter for the eeePC. I had to move the installation files from the provided CD to a thumb drive, but other than that, the install went without any glitches. The USB-N device is shown in the picture at the bottom right.

My installation of Office got clobbered when I was deleting Windows files to reduce the footprint so I’m reinstalling it as we speak, on the new SDHC,  in a minimal configuration. From here on in I’m going to keep tweaking Windows with the idea in mind of size reduction, and perhaps set up a RAM drive, now that we’re phat with 2 gigs of memory.

Stay tuned. Hank