reading some boards i saw a question on developing on tpc, this has been around be fore and it didn't seem like there were too many ideas or opinions, well been running VS .NET 2002 and 2003 on portege 3500 with a gig of ram and a tc1000-256M since june , works fine .......the only thing you will not appreciate is that low res 10-12 inch display, consequently for VS.NET(keyboard biased) its not a practical development environment, see Loren's blog on some very interesting ideas on developing with a pen