>I'd prefer a mini laptop or really good netbook myself.
>
>A "good netbook" is an oxymoron...

Used to think so myself till 3 weeks ago.
Disclaimer: netbook for me is < 12' screen, not the MS-spec for selling with XP instead of Vista
and/or the analogous technical limitations for cheap versions of Win7

20 - 12 years ago I sometimes brought my tower to work -
as it had many discs and all the RAM possible at that time.

15 - 7 years ago I always had at least one laptop with me.
On the plus side: less time needed to work out back then.

Then I started moving data and some portable apps
(later also a configured virtual machine)
to external discs and had the laptop with me only once or twice the week,
less in recent times. Plug into beefy machines at work,
synch while reading the mails for that location.

Was already calculating if I could slim down from 500GB 2.5 disc again
to 32 or 64 GB USB stick - I did start with a 60GB external disk - sans the VM,
sans the emergency tools based on linux - too much stale data on disc.

Then we had a demonstration of another company. The guy had with him a tiny machine
(11.6' screen and small keyboard) but it had a HDMI port to connect to a large screen for all of us,
had 320 GB 2.5' disc, 2 GB RAM, GB Lan and a slow, but at least non-Atom dual core.

Good enough for client side programming or MSTSC sessions on it if necessary -
especially with a large screen attached digitally and USB hub with rodent and keyboard,
demos at other places, internet and office program use or working on a plane -
otherwise daily a 2.5' HD personal SAN-Disc in a 3.5 case with attached keyboard and screen for emergencies <bg>.

So if netbook ~ personal SAN, oxymoron might be a tad too harsh.

regards

thomas