This led us to conclude that the overhead of the extra processor and memory found in system 7000 could have an impact until there are more than 325 users.

The extra hardware and software costs start to push the price of a netbook towards that of a standard laptop, which will invariably be better because it has a bigger processor and superior graphics.

As an example, on a test run, the extra elapsed time for an XML file with 10,000 elements was less than half a second on a 600 MHz processor.