If you guys love games, I recommend to make the switch to Windows XP. It runs them a lot better than either Xandros or Ubuntu.
Below is a list of Windows XP games from Wiki that have been tested on the Eee PC 4G.
Audiosurf
Age of Empires 1
Age of Empires 2
Alien vs Predator 2
Age of Mythology
Age of Wonders 2
American Mcgees Alice
Anachronox
Anarchy Online
Baldur's Gate 2
Battlefield 1942
Battle for Wesnoth
Beetle Crazy Cup
Black & White 2
Blood 2
Call of Duty 1
Call Of The Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth
Captain Claw
Championship Manager 01/02 Civilization 2
City of Heroes
CoD 1
Cod UO
Codename Panzers Phase 1
Combat Mission: Berlin to Barbarossa (with driver)
C&C Decade Edition (Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge)
C&C Gold
CounterStrike 1
Counter-Strike Source
Crazy Taxi
Cube 2 (Sauerbraten)
Daemon Tools
DEFCON
Deus EX
Diablo 2 (with driver)
Duke Nukem 3D
Dungeon Seige 1
Dungeon Seige 2
Enigma
ePSXe (playstation emu)
Escape Velocity Nova
EXULT - Ultima VII
F-22 Raptor
Fallout 1(with driver)
Fallout 2(with driver)
Fate
Fear Combat
FF 11
Flatout
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
Fraps (not a game)
Freedom Force Vs the Third Reich
Freelancer
Fury 3
Ghost Recon: Island Thunder Global Operations
Gothic 1
Gothic 2
Grim Fandango
GTA2(with driver)
GTA: Vice City
GTA: San Andreas
Guild Wars Prophecies
Guild Wars: Eye of the North
Guild Wars: Factions
Guild Wars: Nightfall
Hackers Elite
Half-Life 1
Half-Life 2: Episode 2
Halo1
Heavy Metall: F.A.K.K. 2
Homeworld 2
House of the Dead 2
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Leisure Suit Larry
Live for Speed
LOTR: Online
Lunar Magic
MAME (emu)
Maplestory
Max Payne 1
Medal of Honour: Allied Assult
Moonbase Commander
NFS Porsche Unleashed
Nesticle
Nethack
Neverwinter Nights 1
No One Lives for Ever 1
No One Lives for Ever 2
Operation Flashpoint v1.85
Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst
Planescape Torment
Project 64 (emu)
Populous the beginning
Quake 2
Quake 3 Arena
Rally2000 (no link)
Rally Masters
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Revolt
RF Online
Rise of Rome
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Rome Total War
ScummVM (emu)
Serious Sam: First Encounter
Settlers 3 Gold Edition
Shadow Warrior
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
Shogun TotalWar: Warlord Edition Sim City 3000
Sim City 4
SNES9X (emu)
Splinter Cell
Starcraft
Starfleet Command 2
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
Startrek Voyager: Elite Force
SFC2: Orion Pirates
Star Wars Jedi Knight 1
Star Wars Jedi Knight 2
Star Wars Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
StepMania (no link)
Stronghold
Survival Crisis Z
System Shock 2
TES3:Morrowind
The Longest Journey
Theme Hospital(with driver)
Total Annihilation(with driver)
Trackmania Nations
Tribes 2
Trickstyle
Unreal Tournament 1
Unreal Tournament 2004
Uplink
VirtuaNES(emu)
Virtual Boy Advance
Warcraft III
WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne
Warzone 2001
World of Warcraft (WoW)
Worms World Party
Xcom UFO
Xcom Terror
Zelda Classic
ZQuest
ZSNES (emu)
However, for XUbuntu user, I recommend Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood. It play just fine on the Eee PC.
Source: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=5576
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Below is a list of Windows XP games from Wiki that have been tested on the Eee PC 4G.
Audiosurf
Age of Empires 1
Age of Empires 2
Alien vs Predator 2
Age of Mythology
Age of Wonders 2
American Mcgees Alice
Anachronox
Anarchy Online
Baldur's Gate 2
Battlefield 1942
Battle for Wesnoth
Beetle Crazy Cup
Black & White 2
Blood 2
Call of Duty 1
Call Of The Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth
Captain Claw
Championship Manager 01/02 Civilization 2
City of Heroes
CoD 1
Cod UO
Codename Panzers Phase 1
Combat Mission: Berlin to Barbarossa (with driver)
C&C Decade Edition (Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge)
C&C Gold
CounterStrike 1
Counter-Strike Source
Crazy Taxi
Cube 2 (Sauerbraten)
Daemon Tools
DEFCON
Deus EX
Diablo 2 (with driver)
Duke Nukem 3D
Dungeon Seige 1
Dungeon Seige 2
Enigma
ePSXe (playstation emu)
Escape Velocity Nova
EXULT - Ultima VII
F-22 Raptor
Fallout 1(with driver)
Fallout 2(with driver)
Fate
Fear Combat
FF 11
Flatout
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
Fraps (not a game)
Freedom Force Vs the Third Reich
Freelancer
Fury 3
Ghost Recon: Island Thunder Global Operations
Gothic 1
Gothic 2
Grim Fandango
GTA2(with driver)
GTA: Vice City
GTA: San Andreas
Guild Wars Prophecies
Guild Wars: Eye of the North
Guild Wars: Factions
Guild Wars: Nightfall
Hackers Elite
Half-Life 1
Half-Life 2: Episode 2
Halo1
Heavy Metall: F.A.K.K. 2
Homeworld 2
House of the Dead 2
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Leisure Suit Larry
Live for Speed
LOTR: Online
Lunar Magic
MAME (emu)
Maplestory
Max Payne 1
Medal of Honour: Allied Assult
Moonbase Commander
NFS Porsche Unleashed
Nesticle
Nethack
Neverwinter Nights 1
No One Lives for Ever 1
No One Lives for Ever 2
Operation Flashpoint v1.85
Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst
Planescape Torment
Project 64 (emu)
Populous the beginning
Quake 2
Quake 3 Arena
Rally2000 (no link)
Rally Masters
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Revolt
RF Online
Rise of Rome
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Rome Total War
ScummVM (emu)
Serious Sam: First Encounter
Settlers 3 Gold Edition
Shadow Warrior
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
Shogun TotalWar: Warlord Edition Sim City 3000
Sim City 4
SNES9X (emu)
Splinter Cell
Starcraft
Starfleet Command 2
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
Startrek Voyager: Elite Force
SFC2: Orion Pirates
Star Wars Jedi Knight 1
Star Wars Jedi Knight 2
Star Wars Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
StepMania (no link)
Stronghold
Survival Crisis Z
System Shock 2
TES3:Morrowind
The Longest Journey
Theme Hospital(with driver)
Total Annihilation(with driver)
Trackmania Nations
Tribes 2
Trickstyle
Unreal Tournament 1
Unreal Tournament 2004
Uplink
VirtuaNES(emu)
Virtual Boy Advance
Warcraft III
WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne
Warzone 2001
World of Warcraft (WoW)
Worms World Party
Xcom UFO
Xcom Terror
Zelda Classic
ZQuest
ZSNES (emu)
However, for XUbuntu user, I recommend Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood. It play just fine on the Eee PC.
Source: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=5576
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A little over a week ago, reviews of Asus's Eee PC 701 started to trickle out onto the Internet. Some of the larger publications, like CNet and LAPTOP Magazine got their hands on the unit first, but as it has become more widely available sites like HotHardware and PC Perspective have now put out their own reviews of the Eee PC.
The overall verdict is fairly unanimous: the device's keyboard is a bit cramped, but in terms of price, performance, and features the Eee PC hits the trifecta. Indeed, Asus appears to have gotten so many things right with the Eee PC that it could be a game-changer in the mobile market, in terms of both hardware and software. Instead of rehashing the reviews, which you can read on your own, let me draw a few lessons from the Eee PC launch that I think are important for the mobile space going into 2008.
Now with Live Linux Games and Leeenux for Kids. And finally settled on a Ubuntu-variant called Leeenux. It has given a new lease of life to the Eee PC.' Our RSS Feed.
Intel wins, and Microsoft loses
Thanks to its combination of Intel hardware and a non-bloated Linux install, reviewers found that Asus's little laptop performs just as well as much larger and more expensive Windows notebooks. And the company spent enough time tweaking the unit's default Linux distro that Windows users will supposedly feel right at home.
The device does support Windows XP, but Linux seems to be the OS of choice for all of the reviewers for performance and ease-of-use reasons. In this respect, Microsoft has well and truly blown it, because this device is poised to introduce a few million Best Buy shoppers to a pleasantly usable, non-embedded Linux distro. Even more ominous from Redmond's perspective is the fact that the Eee PC is just one of a breaking wave of Linux-powered portable devices that will reach consumers in the coming year, and that it's the hardware makers that are driving the Linux push.
The absence of Microsoft at the recent, mobile-centric Intel Developer Forum was widely commented upon. Intel showed off a raft of ultramobile PC (UMPC), mobile internet device (MID), and smartphone prototypes and mock-ups, all of which were Linux-powered. And why not? Across the company, from the Terascale research initiative to the discrete GPU project to the enterprise power management efforts to the mobile division, every single forward-looking effort at Intel is very much a software effort, and all of those software efforts are Linux- and open source-based.
This is also true of ARM, which is looking to the open source community to provide the free razors that make its blades worth buying. In fact, my most recent briefing on ARM's mobile plans (an article on this is coming soon) was a mirror image of IDF—the form factors and Linux-powered software efforts were largely the same; only the processor hardware was different.
In sum, Linux is now the popular quarterback at the new mobile party, and Microsoft is just that kid who used to be cool back in grade school when tetherball was the hot game and he was king of the pole. If Microsoft wants to break back into the popular crowd, it's going to have to put on something a bit fresher than Windows Mobile 6, which feels like the operating system equivalent of feathered hair and tight-rolled jeans.
Significant shrinkage
The Eee PC's main selling point is its form factor, and it's the form factor that has really blown the reviewers' minds. It seems that the Eee PC is small enough and light enough to attain a truly new level of portability and convenience, while still having just enough screen real estate and keyboard space to be comfortably usable. The result is that reviewers have compared this device's form factor to the UMPC and found the latter wanting.
The balance between size and usability that the Eee PC has struck could well be one that marks a sort of threshold in form factor design. It's likely that the keyboard + WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) paradigm may not be able to shrink any further than the Eee PC's form factor, due to the limits of human dexterity and visual acuity. Anything smaller than the Eee PC will have to be built on a fundamentally different interface paradigm, and no, stylus + WIMP is probably not it. If this turns out to be the case, then there will be a permanent gap in the market between the Eee PC and the Nokia N810.
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels... Here's to Asus.
If nothing else, the Eee PC could demonstrate that there's a whole device category out that's waiting to be tapped: a wireless laptop that's about the dimensions and weight of a trade paperback or journal (i.e., a large Moleskine), with only solid state storage (no optical drive). If Asus finds the kind of success with the Eee PC that the reviews would seem to indicate, then we'll see the market spit out many more of these diskless devices in the coming year.
I've actually been dying for Apple to release just such a device for about two years now, but the last time I brought it up here at Ars I got flamed by hordes of optical drive lovers(!?). (I can't find a link for this incident, so you'll have to take my word for it.) Maybe now is the time, though, for Cupertino to follow Asus's lead and put some of that massive quantity of flash storage that it has locked up into something besides and iPod or an iPhone.
But regardless of who's next—Apple, Lenovo, Nokia, or whoever—the Eee PC's combination of form factor, performance, and mobile Linux is a prelude of things to come. When Silverthorne and WiMAX debut in 2008, we'll see this category of device take on a whole new level of power and connectivity.