You mean a netbook? sm
Posted By: I am buying one on 2009-02-09
In Reply to: Question for mini-laptop users. Are you able to use Dictaphone Extext program - TravelingMT
Yes, you would need to have Word 2003 on it to run Extext. BUT you have a couple of ways to do this. You can copy your entire CD onto a Flash drive and stick the Flash into the netbook and copy it that way. You do what my son does, which is to put stuff on his external hard drive and then hook the external hard drive onto the netbook and transfer again. You can also obtain an external CDROM drive that is USB and do it that way. It CAN be done.
A good Asis brand, and they are the best netbooks at the moment, have a monitor port so you can use them with a KVM and a full size monitor. They SHOULD have 3 USBs...one for a mouse, one for a keyboard and one for the pedal, and you can hook them to a big monitor if you don't want to run 2 computers off a KVM as I do.
ANYTHING you can download off the internet, you can put on there. They simply lack any type of built in optical drive (CDROM).
Because they can come XP and you want that (Vista is not DOS based in quite the same way and doesn't operate well on netbooks, although many of them are sold with Vista, but you want XP) many of our platforms run great in XP, the best in fact...and you can't get XP any other way anymore...you are where you need and want to be.
My sons both have netbooks, both are very enthusiastic about them. They weigh under 3 lbs, to a laptop's 15-20. My oldest got one that has a 1 gig of RAM standard. The keyboards are 92% of a regular one and they are all built-in wireless, although they come with an Ethernet port so you can hard wire it. He doubled his RAM because he could. It came with a 160-gig hard drive. The screens are like 8", 10" and 10-3/4", they tell me. If you run off the battery, you will get 9-10 hours on a single charge.
I think that these would make wonderful, inexpensive little work horses for MTs, being that they are around $400, run a standard operating system not something weird or new, that you get a lot of bang for the buck, and you can hook them to a large monitor...well I am enthusiastic too.
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