Penny If you have a DVD drive on your PC, and make it shareable, then you can access it from any other machine on your WIFI network. That means that you won't need an external DVD just for program loading. I have successfully installed quite a lot of software on a laptop with a broken DVD from a laptop with a working DVD. Hope that helps as well.... Terry > Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:45:58 +0000 > From: Victor Markham <victor@markham.me.uk> > Subject: Re: [FHU] Advise on laptop vs netbook > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <4EAE6046.7030800@markham.me.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Penny > > I have a Netbook and have no problems using FH on this. Mind you a > laptop will give you a bigger screen and the individual details are not > fully shown on the Netbook > > The reason I bought the Netbook is because it is light and I take it on > flights I make (for holiday not family search) and it helps to come > within the weight limits. But I still use my pc for all FH details. > Copying them onto my Netbook from time to time using an image stick (or > flash drive as some prefer to call it) > > With a Netbook you will need an external DVD to load software onto it. > > Hope this helps > > Victor > > On 31/10/2011 8:19 AM, Penny Haysom wrote: > > > > > > > > Hope it's allowed to ask a hardware question on this site? > > I would be grateful for any advice on how people have found using > Family Historian with either a laptop or a netbook, please. Currently > just have a PC, but have been looking at a more mobile solution. My IT > chap reckons a netbook with good battery life would be fine, (and I'd > just as soon have something lighter and easier to transport), but I'd > be interested to hear of actual experience. > > Many thanks. > > Penny > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY- > HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ****************************************