I'm with you on all points. I have one myself that I use solely for coding when I'm commuting to/from work on the train, and for that purpose it works wonderful

I'm with you on all points. I have one myself that I use solely for coding when I'm commuting to/from work on the train, and for that purpose it works wonderfully. I've had to treat even a new netbook(for the time, anyway) like it was a very old PC... so I kept the setup on it to an absolute minimum. It boots very quickly and I can usually get working in very little time. Once I get back home, all my code is sync'd with my other PC's on Dropbox and I continue from there. That said, I wouldn't recommend using it as a primary machine for long durations... not without a spare mouse, keyboard or monitor to hook up to the VGA port. I've done that setup in the past and it's worked out for the most part, but without them I don't think I could use it for more than 2 hours.