Yes, I am a net book user, don’t laugh.  A lot of people do not understand why I would use a net book, as opposed to a full size lap top.  Let me explain my work.  I spend most of my day at home in my home office, with my net book on the desk, a second 22” screen, and a full keyboard and mouse plugged in.

Now, if I get a call from a client and have to run over there, I unplug everything from my net book, slip it into its small case, I don’t need a power adapter because of my net books 6 cell battery, and I truly have something portable.  If I am early to the clients I can pop open the net book in the car, plug in my 3G stick and do some work.  I had a full size laptop before my net book, but hated the size when I wanted to use in my car, or airplane, or sky train, and the battery barley lasted 1.5 hours.  I was on a plane trip a couple of months ago, and the guy next to me opened his laptop, and have of it was on my lap.  So yes, I love my net book.  By the way, I did beef up the ram in it a bit.

Now back to the purpose of this article.  I was obviously running XP, as Vista was not an option for net books, but really, XP is an 8 year old OS, and it was time for a change.  When I started hearing around the community that Windows 7 was going to work on net books I was really excited.  I had downloaded Windows 7 beta on to my desk top computer for testing and love it.

So, Microsoft releases Windows 7, and I was the first to purchase and download it from their site.  And the download included a great utility with prepared a 4 gig flash drive for you, to become the bootable drive that handled the install of Windows 7.

This was the big problem with net books; they do not have an optical drive, so how do you install Windows 7?  Well, Microsoft solved that problem with this utility included with your downloaded version of the program.

Now, if you happened to buy the CD version of Windows 7, and you want to install it on your web site, it can be done.  Spend some time on Google searching for “install Windows 7 on a net book” and you will find the answers on how to prepare a 4 gig flash card, to become a bootable device, and copy your Windows 7 CD on to the flash drive.  The procedure is a bit technical, but can be done.

Now, here is what I found with Windows 7 on my net book.  I have what I feel to be a 30% increase in overall speed and performance, which is great.  All the new cool features in Windows 7 are great and there are many time saving new features.  Windows 7 integrated seamlessly with my network and all my devices. I highly recommend all you net book users out there mozy on over to Microsoft’s sites, and get your download of Windows 7.

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