[mattiej]

Originally Posted by linuxboy

Hmm, sounds like everyone thinks that the classmate is too small/slow for programming, that is kind of worrying. I guess I will see what my team can do in terms of a bigger better laptop (if only a Mac was within budget *sigh*). Maybe we can borrow someones extra desktop since I think some people have extra computers lying around. Anybody have any experience with having one of the team members bring in a desktop for programming and leaving it there? Are there benefits to having a laptop during build season or is it just so the programmers can work at home?

That is actually something I did. I used my own personal laptop for programming back at home. When came to competition, we used the classmate because that was what we were competing with (at least last year). I recommend that whatever you use, remain constant. It helps.