My wife's netbook started clicking, and about 3 weeks later wouldn't boot. I found out how to reinstall from the xp partition and it worked until it tried to reboot again. (Thanks Bill G). Same deal. 3rd time i called. Tech support said I had to re-install the o/s. I said I did that but they said they had to log it, give me report number, and walked me through what I already knew how to do.

Then it died again.

I talked to support and this guy said it was the o/s was corrupt (bull) and that I needed a set of DVDs. I told him there is no DVD drive on the system he said go buy one! I argued that I didn't want to spend $100 bucks (a high number thinking that I get GEAR, but not liking what I'm hearing). The next thing that happens is he requires a credit card number because the DVD's are $22 for an OEM version. Now I'm unhappy.

They cave in and determine that I'm closest to Texas. Now I've been there at least 20 times, but close to me? Oh, Canada he says, goes to Toronto....geez. Gives me a number, and I shipped it out. Got a confirmation receipt the next day.

I would NOT overclock the thing, Band in a box on the external hard drive worked fine, and I suspect it would be faster on the system. And I thought it ran a bit hot, but it's almost a year old. We got it a future shop and added a year of extra coverage.

We like the computer, she can put it in her purse, we took it to Cuba twice, and it's been at our cabin 3 times. I have an external back up hard drive but just back up the photo and music files (and why I leave the music files on the external hard drive.) I suspect they are going have to bump the memory and do other stuff to run win 7.

It took a while to get used to the small keyboard but it's great for taking to gigs.

I suspect the price of some stuff is going to drop quite a bit before xmas or soon after, the dollar is close to par with the US this morning and expected to stay there until after the new year.

Hope this helps.

The replaced or repaired unit should be here this week, they said 5 to 7 business day.

John Conley
Musica est vita