Then I thought I would try using splashtop to remote into my home desktop. I thought this was perfect; I could use the power of my home machine and the portability of the Nexus. Worked great on my home network. After going to a conference, I found that it just could not hold the connection. I'm only using vim on a terminal. It just would not work.
Now here I am eyeing an 11 Macbook Air. Great portability and battery life, but the price is just hard to swallow.