The shop maybe getting netbooks to replace the 7+ year old dell's that has been used for our regular service calls. They take so long to boot up, I could have done the service call and got back into my truck, before they are ready.

They have 500m ram, 30 gig hd and running xp sp 2. They were ok until last year, when they started showing their age and took forever to boot up. Can't put them into sleep mode. The batteries won't keep the computer up very long unplugged.

I have been using a netbook and the shop asked if I thought if they would be good for service.

Presently it is running vista basic on 2 gig of memory on a 250 hd.

Present netbooks run win 7 on 1 gig of memory with a 160 hd. Hard drive size isn't an issue. We use inter-tel session manager, vodavi ecom, inter-tel 3000, procomm and other programs to talk to systems.

What are your experiences with netbooks? Any recommendations of type. Or should we be looking at a low end notebook.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mikea