After advising several clients on purchase of netbook computers (10" super small notebook computers) I decided to eat my own dogfood. >8 hr battery and <3 lbs; loving it after 3 weeks. I upgraded from Windows 7 Starter to Professional to enable me to connect to our Windows domain (connect to home and share drives and take the home "My Documents" as an offline folder.
The challenge came when wanting to do more than webmail...Microsoft does not directly support sharing a PST file (the main outlook data file) between (2) computers. I need to use POP mail; Exchange is not an option. But there had to be a solution...I found an innovative application called SynchPst for Outlook that enables you to basically sync the PST files on (2) computers. You run SynchPst from the main computer then share the PST directory on the Netbook.
The app syncs up the PST files. Elegant. You get the same outlook experience on either computer. Of course the netbook is tiny (keyboard and screen) but it is a step between a smartphone and a heavy notebook.
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