Thank you Pavel for your answer. It's been a year now and these are some of the issues of using Visual Studio on a netbook: - It's a great tool for fast implementations of concepts I'm seing in my courses. - The resolution it's not the best for projects that require you to use all the VS panels. Most of the time I kept all the panels hidden. - 2GB and Windows XP Professional SP3 seems to do the trick. I didn't tried the Windows 7 experience. I don't need it in this machine. Greetings, JuanD

Hi Randor... I'm using C#.NET, so VC6 is not an option ( I wish it would :sigh: ) I guess i'll try an Express Edition of Visual C#.NET 2008 instead of Visual Studio 2008, considering the facts Dave previously told me. Maybe the amount of RAM memory seems adecuate (2GB), but the performance of the processor is yet to be determined. Thank you guys for your time. JuanD

Thank you Dave. about the specs: 2GB RAM, 9" display with 1024x600 resolution. it also has 80 GB of HDD. You made an excellent point with the work area of the display, considering the size of the panels in VS'08. But my concerns are related with the processor load... I mean, Would Intel Atom be able to handle Vs'08? Will it perform like a Celeron?

Hi everyone! With all this hype about netbooks, I was wondering if it's possible to run Visual Studio 2008 on a Intel's Atom based netbook. I don't need to create any "fancy stuff", just the basic educational and learning material, something to keep me awake during those boring lectures at college. The portability and price are very attractive, considering this one would be my secondary pc. What do you think? JuanD