Portability : Netbooks can be under 1.5Kg and gives better battery back up. Atom processor and 10 inch screen comes to rescue here.
Development work : I have done decent amount of development work on a netbook. Its your code, you know the source base well and most of the time you will be just typing stuff. But to do heavy testing, debugging or hacking an alien source base, you can connect a big monitor to your netbook. Browsing : If you use less of tabbed-browsing and can remember your tab windows, you can switch to full screen mode (F11) and get the best out of your 10 inch screen. And try to remove the battery, as much as possible, when your laptop/netbook is plugged in. Gives good battery life. If this is the only x86 you are gonna have and you are gonna use it for serious programming, better buy a desktop or spend a little more for a 14/15 inch laptop. Cheers, Pratap On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Friends. > > I am looking for buying a laptop or netbook. > > Budget : around 20 k > > Looked the netbooks in a laptop shop. > > They are so small with 10" screen. > > But, sony viao has 11.6" screen which has most wider screen in the tiny > devices. > > Will the sony viao 11.6" support linux well? > > > The usage will be browsing, openoffice, python/php coding. > > > Please share your thoughts on performance/processor/RAM requirements > of netbooks. > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > > > My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com > Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in > > Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc -- Pratap. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc