Is the A15 my future development machine? All my development happens in ssh and firefox. So performance is not an issue.
Does that really bear out? I like the idea of a low-powered netbook connecting to a high-powered server for development, but in my (very limited) experience it's a pain.
I have two machines, and old laptop with an AMD RM-70 and a Thinkpad X41 with a Pentium M 1.6 Ghz.
On both machines, using Firefox is a painful experience because the performance is so bad. Using chrome is pretty good.
I've been thinking about buying a newer netbook with better battery life, but the performance of newer low-powered mobile CPUs doesn't seem that much greater than the systems I already have.
Why wouldnt it? Been doing it for years now and cannot think of any other way of development anymore.
Depending on the technology used, exporting sound can be an hour of fiddling about to get it setup first time around.
Out of VNC, RDP and NX, VNC is the lame duck.
Out of RDP & NX, both require extra software but RDP is more widely re-usable (virtual box, windows etc).
The bandwidth requirements aren't the problem with X these days - a 3G connection at under 1Mbps real world is fine for reasonable display sizes, it's the round trip latency is the killer. It's such a chatty protocol, but on a LAN / WiFi it's fine and works out of the box with... scratch that, you need to install XQuartz separately since Mountain Lion. I almost forgot about that.
Yeah, my understanding is that NX mimicks the remote end locally and then translates the result and transmits that. There's an Android app called BVNC that uses X forwarding with a local X server to do the same thing. No extra software and it's more responsive than X-forwarding.
I should've just mentioned it before, it may be of use to you.
Or you could just use the pre-installed linux kernel underneath a distribution of your choice.
For getting actually work done, I use an x86 laptop. I wouldn't ever go back to using a netbook or any non-mainstream notebook with iffy linux support. It's just not worth your time to deal with technical issues. Buy the best tools that you can find (best being what works for you).