Agree completely with what's been said about Linux/LAMP. I bought an old, old<br>Dell D420 (2006) laptop for a demonstration earlier this year of what you could<br>do with older hardware and a LAMP stack. I have 1GB RAM, a 60GB HDD, and a<br>
puny 800Mhz processor...and I'm churning along in Drupal quite decently.<br><br>I recently moved off-grid and I am unexpectedly having to rely on this laptop (less<br>energy usage than my big dual-core desktop) ... but it works just fine.<br>
<br>(Side benefit to Linux development: it's just a heck of a lot more fun than<br>Windows! You're back in charge of your own machine - and that's a good feeling...)<br><br>Chana<br><br>