Hello,
I too am interested in this. I am looking at ultra low power machines, such as the Soekris or
Inveneo or
Fit-PC.
I am sure these work great as a small server and such - but I am more interested in their suitability as a desktop development platform (X optional). Doing tasks as text editing and processing, compiling, debugging, web and email, maybe OpenOffice and Gimp, etc. How well would it perform in that capacity? How much of a hit would I take compared to my AMD X2 4600+?