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the eee has more than enough power to run windows. you just have to "de-bloat" it first with nLite (which any carPC user should do anyways). once its installed you should also turn off unecessary services like system restore, etc. and disable the paging file. once you de-bloat and tweak windows, then it flies on the eeePC.
SSDs are faster than magnetic HDDs. the transfer rate is about the same, but the seek time is much faster on an SSD than mechanical HDD. HDDs have to physically/mechanically seek/retrieve the data, then transfer it. SSDs don't suffer from mechanical latency and as a result seek time is almost instantaneous.
don't worry about the SSD lifespan, windows or Linux it will last for years under normal use. don't confuse an high-endurance flash in an SSD with the significantly shoter lifespan of a removable flash card. modern SSD's are good for at least 1,000,000 write/erase cycles. at a constant 40MB/s transfer rate it would take over 3 years of continuous writing to kill a modern SSD. the technology is over 10 years old now and is ready for use as a reliable HDD replacement.
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