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gibsonfirebird12   04-20-2011 at 07:52:25 PM

Forgive me if this is an epically n00b question,

but I read online that netbooks have been being used by techs for doing diagnostics on other computers because of their portability.

Anyone know anything about this

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hang-the-9   04-25-2011 at 08:26:41 PM
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You can use it to test drives in external enclosures, run telnet sessions, network testing. You can't actually do any hardware diagnostics on another computer, you need a boot disk for that.

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gibsonfirebird12   04-26-2011 at 07:27:48 AM

hang-the-9 wrote :

You can use it to test drives in external enclosures, run telnet sessions, network testing. You can't actually do any hardware diagnostics on another computer, you need a boot disk for that.



Gotcha, that's what I thought. Just thought I'd check anyways. Thanks!

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