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Here's what I want: A cheap text ssh terminal with wifi,or cellular, nice keyboard hardware, with extremely long battery life (or solar powered), which i can just throw it in my car and forget it. Whenever I am away of my computer I can always log in to my cloud server and write codes or do some quick fixes.

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This should be possible with a Kindle. The basic Kindle costs $50 or so. And it is a fork of Android. And has a month of battery life. There are some Kindle-roots [Search "root a kindle"]. Would something like this work for you? The keyboard will still be the kindle-keyboard.

The other option is a cheap ipad with a bluetooth keyboard. If you turn off all the unnecessary apps and notifications and put it on airplane mode - it should last a couple of weeks. You turn it on only when you need it. You will still need to get an ssh app [many available].

The basic Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite don't use Android. It's only the higher end models like Kindle Fire that use the Android fork.

At least one developer dumped his MacBook and switched to an iPad + Linode server for at least a year:

http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-...

I have been wondering if Chromebooks could be useful for this purpose...

Could you use a (smart) phone?

Most modern smartphones do not hace physical keyboard, and my Kindle has spoiled me to think that anything less than a month is not “long battery life”.

That's my dream.

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