You could be right. But, the netbooks that I've seen have a 160G hard drive,
and Win XP takes several G, so an 8G drive would be pretty much filled just
with the OS, so I'm thinking he managed to load it up to where there's only
8G remaining from whatever amount it had when it started life in the fast
lane.
My kid has a Netbook -- an Acer, I think -- that us running XP and Office
XP, and she has no trouble with space. She opened a DropBox account and
stores her files online. She also uses a variety of flash drives, but I
think these are a pain to manage, especially when you buy them in packages
of three or four, and they all look the same. MARKETING IDEA -- make
thumbdrives in colors, or stamp multipack drives with letters or numbers.
DropBox (
www.dropbox.com) is cool, and there are probably other sites that
do the same thing, so shop around. Anyhow, DropBox lets you store files in a
certain folder on your machine, and it monitors changes in that folder and
pulls files to an online storage location. You can assign the location as
shared with a friend or relative, or another computer you own, and DropBox
will send the shared person notification that files are changed or added.
It's a very seemless application. If you use a public machine to visit your
files, then you can log in from the public machine with a user name and
password, and your stuff is available. It's a very nice program for students
that might use the library to work on projects. It's also cool for you to
take pictures of your vacation and share with family members. You can share
and unshare folders whenever you want, but the sharing party has to be a
DropBox member.
Perhaps this application would be useful to the OP, or somebody else that is
following along.
