I have used nothing but some Dell Mini 9's for programming and everything else for over a year. It took some getting used to, and some significant customisation

I have used nothing but some Dell Mini 9's for programming and everything else for over a year. It took some getting used to, and some significant customisation of my window manager, but I feel as productive with it as with anything previous. The low specs rarely bother me. I have upgraded the SSD, that was the only stock component that was annoyingly slow (and small). I wrote up the approaches I use for very task-specific, low resolution workspace layouts here: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/xmonad_layouts_for_netbooks/ http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/xmonad_layouts_for_netbo... Should be applicable to non-xmonad users too, just perhaps harder to do.