I found it handy as a second laptop. Opted for XP Home because I needed to be able to use a secondary monitory. I upgrade the memory to 2GB so that I could do slightly more. Battery life is OK (never tried to push it for 8 hours though)Get more detail about Acer AO532h-2309 10.1-Inch Garnet Red Netbook - Up to 10 Hours of Battery Life.
