I'm working on a plan for a mobile developer laptop. Key features will be good battery life and smal/lightweight. Powerful is of course also important but the mobile factor still comes first. I'm looking for something i can program on when traveling/holidays etc.
Had a look at several brands but kept coming back to the ASUS EEE family. These are just really nice, small and cheap. And just my luck: they just released their newest model last week 
the Asus Eee PC 1008HA netbook.
This lovely thing is very thin, 1667mhz atom CPU, 160gb disk, 2gb ram (with upgrade) and a 10.1" screen. I know this is small but as I'm pretty much never in WYSIWYG view when programming it should be fine.
It comes with an OEM windows license but i want to run it on Linux. I will however keep the OEM windows xp installed in a dual-boot or Wine setup. Not sure which yet. Wine has come pretty far since i last tried it.
The 1008HA is going to be available in several different colours, i could only find a photo of the white one but there is also a black, blue, pink, sapphire blue and red one available. I really like the red one but i think i will go with one of the blue ones to match my site's colours. The white one is nice too though :/ but maybe a bit to apple-ish. The price will be around 400 euros.
As mentioned I'm going to run Linux on it, the ubuntu netbook build to be precise that can be seen here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook. Havnt tried this build before but i like ubuntu as a client pc OS. (I use centos for my web-servers).
As i will be running linux i must find open source alternatives for my usual windows software and have been trying out a few different packages. My choices for now are the following:
Graphic design: http://www.koffice.org/krita/
Web development: http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/ or http://net2.com/nvu/faq.html
Email: http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/
And of course the usual basic software for ftp, ssh, torrents, etc.
A site by ASUS about this particular model can be seen here: http://event.asus.com/eeepc/seashell/
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