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I've been doing some work on my eee 1000he lately. Eclipse is runnable but noticeably slow. When I'm at home, I tend to use it as an x terminal for the desktop

I've been doing some work on my eee 1000he lately. Eclipse is runnable but noticeably slow. When I'm at home, I tend to use it as an x terminal for the desktop upstairs. I love the battery life, the keyboard is good enough for several hours with only a slightly cramped feel. This is not my primary development machine and I think you aren't looking for that either. It's not just about the initial cost outlay. When I carry around a $300 machine, I don't worry about leaving it in the car, or spilling coffee on it, or so on. I don't worry about some absurdly padded bulky bag. If I were in the market right now, I would go for an 11" timeline or similar intel ULV. The boost to 13??x768 is about 50% gain over the 1000he's 1024x600, and the CPU is probably 2-3x my atom.

SingAlong 16y ago
I was using an Acer Aspire One until 2 days ago, when I bought by new HP Probook 4420s (ya I love this new machine). My tricks to run heavy stuff to run stuff efficiently on an Aspire One were: 1.) Use XFCE (lightweight) or Lxde (super-lightweight) as your desktop environment. Made it possible to run Eclipse pretty fast. Use the version of eclipse from the OS repo. I had problems with the overflowed UI elements being hidden in the original version from the eclipse site. 2.) I used Synergy to share my desktop keyboard and mouse when I'm at home. 3.) Use Chrome instead of Firefox whenever possible. Chrome's startup is faster. Don't suspend with too many tabs open in Chrome. Chrome hangs your netbook and crashes.