[jyl]

Thanks for all the thoughts. Quite a bit of experience with netbooks in this group.

The MacBook isn't going to happen - too big/heavy, too expensive. Also I want her to be familiar w/ both Mac OS and Windows, and right now we use Mac OS at home, so might as well have a Windows netbook.

The used Thinkpad etc idea is interesting - I will think about that. She's careful with her stuff, in the sense of not breaking it. But she's also prone to wander off and leave her stuff unattended.

You know, I have used Open Office, and I recall that it was just fine. Maybe I'll go that route.

Last question - anyone use a SSD drive in their netbook? Any advantages to that, vs a 60GB HDD?