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Originally Posted by mick70
Friend of mines off travelling for six months and is lending me his shiny new Shuttle pc  . If I whip out his hard drive and fit a new blank disk and buy XP OEM version for £50 is it straightforward from there...just boot from CD drive, install windows and the drivers for the shuttle and off I go or I am I being naive and missing something?
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Obligatory Linux pimping:
Rather than spending £50 on Windows, why not give Linux a try? It's free, and you've got absolutely nothing to lose -- if you don't like it, you can just install Windows over the top. The best version for newcomers is Ubuntu -- download it at
www.ubuntulinux.org.
It can do almost everything -- web browsing, email, music -- just as well, and in some cases much better than Windows. The only thing lacking is the ability to play games easily, but with a Shuttle PC you probably won't be doing this anyway.
Go on, give it a try!
EDIT: I forgot to say that you can also try it out beforehand (to find out about hardware compatability etc) by downloading one of the Live CD versions from the website above. This is a trial version that runs entirely from the CD -- it doesn't touch the harddrive at all.