Is an eee-pc with an Atom N550 dual core OK for Rails 3 development?

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I'm buying an Asus eee-pc 1015PEM and hope to do test-driven Rails 3 development on it. Is the CPU fast enough or too painfully slow for this? I plan on installing Ubuntu.

I currently develop on a 11 inch Macbook Air 2010 model. It works fine as a Rails development machine. But for some reason I'm drawn to developing on a cheap little netbook.

I don't use any IDE's, and my development workflow is mostly switching between Vim, Gnu Screen, and bash.

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