ASUS is considering Android-based Eee PCs

This link is from the original article, describing how to build Android (Cupcake) for the Eee PC 701 http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ajdmx8kfg357_81cmpr56f6

How has XP gotten so much slower over the past few years? The machines out on its release were Pentium IIIs and very early (crap) Pentium 4s, and yet it struggles to run on modern netbook hardware.

I have the same setup. But for me, XP runs okay on it. I disabled automatic updates and the spyware removal tool, though. No antivirus either. I also use many "Portable Apps" (http://portableapps.com/ ), so relatively little is really installed on the machine.

Perhaps it's not targeted at you, but at someone who would like a cheaper, perhaps smaller system?

> And, which office suite can I use?

You could use the Google web apps.

I'd like it because I want an ARM netbook, I'm pretty excited by nVidia's moves towards that too.

It's kind of a hard question because you've only told us you're using XP, not really for what (besides office). I'd be nice if Android apps got more interesting because of this, but that's kind of speculative. It'll have some nifty touchscreen support so we might eventually get a tablet that doesn't cost way too much.

I haven't really used Android much, though. Is the web browser tolerable? It might be nice to have a browser that had a good zooming interface when using it on a smaller netbook screen.