This is a take on how my productivity is going with carrying 2 devices every day, NetBook and Laptop.

Yes its painful to carry 6-8 KGs everyday.. But there are benefits. I am using my everyday laptop as a mini datacenter with all san and cluster simulation and NetBook for everything else, its more like a 8.9' Mobile Phone..

Upgraded NetBook memory to 2GB and SSD to 64GB.. It now brilliant with Windows 7 professional. 

Laptop with 8GB RAM and 1TB HDD running Windows Server 2008 R2 + Hyper-V + iSCSI Targets.. Bloody brilliant!.. 

Very soon I will need to replace my NetBook with a tablet model. Not much models out there for a reasonable price..

Some references I found for NetBook with a tablet model...

http://hothardware.com/Articles/Asus-Eee-PC-T91-SwivelScreen-Netbook-Review/

http://www.i-tech.com.au/products/52342_Gigabyte_T1028X_Tablet__Netbook__Bronze.aspx

Couple of weeks ago i went in a bought one of the DELL Mini’s offered thru Vodafone contract.

Nice gadget, Not many serious people appreciate it. It comes with a 14gb ssd and 1gb ram (upgradable), and a 5 gb mobile broadband,. and no boring bits.  I will be upgrading as soon as i feel this is working for me..

Its too small to even install a full version of vista business and office ultimate.. But i have 3 gb of available space.. Interesting..

Softwares installed.

• Vista Business (Small foot print)
• Office ultimate 2007 (required bits)
• Visio professional 2007 (required bits)
• Windows Live (mail, writer etc)
• Adobe reader and air for twitter client
• Office Live addins

I wanted to see whether this will work for me, Isolating my development laptop to netbook which now carries all day to day bits. Now I dont have to worry about my personal bits on the development laptop., resetting and rebuilding is a breeze..

Will update more on part 2 – Configuration.

Zak

Why blogging?. Why not Blogging..

I decided to start blogging my viewpoints and experiences on a daily basis. why?

There is a long story to it. In short I am fed up with people writing blogs and articles without getting their hands dirty.  The reason most people read blogs is not to reinvent the wheel and learn from the experience the world has had….

I spent a good few days trying to get a piece of functionality ready over the holidays and realised that most documentation i have read is standard MSDN and TECHNET documentation, which is in a way “BAD” (some areas), Lacks explanation and scenarios..

Finally this is where I officially start, the aim is to write my side of the story in all aspects of IT, .NET, SharePoint and general things.

More to Come..

Zak