[SmokingJoe]

Like you said, netbooks are great for basic computing and Internet/email access. And you can't beat the price.
My understanding is that Microsoft will continue to sell XP to netbook suppliers, even after win 7 is launched, because Microsoft sells XP for netbooks at only $15 to OEM’s, and they are not quite ready to go that low for Win 7 prices to OEM’s.

[bcsco]

XP on these small PC’s only makes sense; price first, then a relatively solid operating system. These machines aren’t robust by any stretch, but they answer the basic needs of people. I took the wife’s PC to my Kiwanis meeting last week and passed it around (we’re a Golden K group of elders). I had a number of interested guys who saw it as an alternative to older PCs that just didn’t cut it anymore, or a simple, inexpensive, step into first-time computing.