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I'm currently doing full-time development work on a netbook. It's not ideal but it is manageable. It's an MSI Wind running Ubuntu 10.10. Admittedly it's hooked

I'm currently doing full-time development work on a netbook. It's not ideal but it is manageable. It's an MSI Wind running Ubuntu 10.10. Admittedly it's hooked up to an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. And I upgraded it to 2GB of RAM and a 300GB hard drive. At any given time I'll have gvim, chrome, apache, mysql, and memcache running. I'd like to get a beefier laptop but this will do for the time being. Funds are tight. EDIT: If you decide to get a netbook, try out a few and see what keyboard layout you like. The hardware inside will be pretty similar, but the keyboards are all crummy in slightly different ways.

EasyCompany 16y ago
I just bought the latest asus netbook, its an intel duo core, they have just been released two months ago(i think). It has 250gb and 1gb ram. I run a dual partition ubuntu/windows 7 and i run netbeans to do some programming. I really love it and forget to log onto my home laptop when i get home, also the 1 gig ram seems fine so far but i will upgrade it this week to 2gigs. I actually debated between an ipad and a netbook and after playing around with a friends ipad i chose this netbook for $350.