Remember before the Eee PC appeared? It seems like it was forever ago, yet the news keeps flooding in day after day. Most recently, the Windows Eee PC seems to be the subject of discussion (quite literally, in some cases.) Today, there are three pieces of news, all from the world of the Windows Eee PC.

First, CNet has released their review of the Eee PC with Windows and they gave it a 7.3 (out of 10.) Not a bad review at all by CNet standards, but the Linux Eee PC did better, with a 7.5. (Both reviews are for the white 4G version. They are also both written and edited by the same people.) That may seem like a small, insignificant difference, but when you consider that 90% of these machines are the same and the only difference is the operating system, it becomes more significant.

This is not, however, the only evidence that Linux is the better OS for the Eee PC. Rafe Needleman, editor of CNet’s Webware.com, commented on a non-CNet site (see #111, around 22:40) that Windows XP on the Eee PC “is not a happy experience” and that “I pretty much guarantee it is going to be a dog.” Coming from an relatively unbiased source who has, presumably, been able to play with both the Windows and Linux Eee PC, it probably means a lot.

On a less positive side of things, it appears that the Windows and Linux Eee PCs do, in fact, cost the same price. According to the CNet review of the Windows Eee PC, “Windows XP for the same price as the Linux version.” I have already written about why pretending Windows is free on the Eee PC is absolutly unfair, so I will not get into it again here, but I encourge you to go back and read my earlier article.

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