I used to use Android on an old netbook --- a Toshiba AC100, ARM-based with 512MB of RAM. The netbook originally shipped with Gingerbread and was practically unusable, but after I upgraded it to Honeycomb it was a really rather comfortable thing to use.<p>I had Debian running in a chroot on it, so I got a combination of the Android UI with a proper Linux environment underneath it. This meant that stuff like wifi and quick wakeup and sleep all worked fine, together with Android&#x27;s lightweight web browser etc. But if I wanted it, apt and all the build tools were available.<p>Unfortunately, since Honeycomb, each successive Android release has been steadily worse to use with a touch pad --- the Honeycomb status bar was great, the ICS action bar isn&#x27;t. These days I use a Chromebook.