I'm regularly using an HP mini-note. The nearly full size keyboard makes a difference for me, as does the extra screen resolution, but it is pricy for a netbook.
It can only drive an external display at 640x480, tho. The ubuntu netbook remix does a nice job with the limited screen real estate, but when you're running slideshow for a talk, you'll want to switch over to something else because gracket doesn't seem to be telling the OS the right things to get a full screen slide window (I recently discovered it is possible to do this because the video player can do it, but I didn't try to look into it to fix gracket, I'm sorry to say.) The battery is great. I've been using a 3 cell one (because it is smaller) and it lasts plenty long for me on my commute every day. The slowness of the processor is a real pain. I routinely run builds from source, but I have to plan ahead for them. I see some slowness like Neil describes, but picking the wrong font can have a big impact on editing responsiveness. Generally, the crappier it looks, the better the responsiveness.... Robby On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Neil Toronto <neil.toro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm running Racket on an Eee-PC 1000H with Ubuntu Netbook Remix and it's > adequate. Performance is about what you'd expect for something about a third > as fast as a desktop. The keys are comfy and the 1024x600 screen tends to > hold enough Scheme/LaTeX code. Netbook Remix is good about maximizing space > use, so that helps. (I also set my top panel to autohide.) > > It'll drive any VGA projector or monitor under 2048x2048, and the newer > models probably do more and have digital output. It tends to take longer > than 3x to compile Slideshow apps compared to my desktop, but it's snappy > enough once that's done. > > The battery lasted about 4-5 hours at first. I've read that the newer ones > last 6-7. > > Regarding Racket dev: Setup takes about an hour (I think), so I don't often > install from source. (The binaries work fine.) The only problem I have is > that inserting and cursoring around in DrRacket's editor gets really slow > when the source file I'm editing goes above three screens of text or so. > From my experiments, it seems to be related to both syntax highlighting and > the number of on-screen glyphs. > > Neil > > Carl Eastlund wrote: >> >> I killed my laptop recently -- spilled a glass of milk right on the >> keyboard -- and I need a cheap replacement for when I'm travelling. >> This will not be my primary development machine. The only absolute >> need I have from it is to be able to run Slideshow presentations, >> though being able to meaningfully develop in Racket (i.e. running >> "raco setup" in a somewhat reasonable amount of time) would be a big >> plus too. I am thinking some kind of netbook, probably running Linux. >> Does anyone out there know what kind would be suitable? I have not >> looked at low-end portable computers in some time, so I don't know >> what kind of performance to expect, what brands are reliable, etc. >> Thanks for any pointers! >> >> Carl Eastlund >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
