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

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.