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 <tshrinivasan at 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.
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