Most affordable, portable, battery-powered hardware for running a LAMP setup for development?

I will be flying to Australia (~15 hr. flight) and I'd like to continue work on my current project while on the airplane.

My project (website on CakePHP framework) requires a LAMP bundle so I'm looking for a very portable, reasonably affordable device that can accommodate a LAMP installation, and also could retain battery life throughout the majority of the flight.

I've never owned an Apple product, but could an iPad (decent battery lifetime) be setup with开发者_StackOverflow中文版 LAMP somehow? A netbook seems to be the obvious choice, but ones I've looked at don't have great battery durations. Is there a third party battery for netbooks with uber-strength somewhere?

Thanks!

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You have a few choices.

• Spend the dough and upgrade to buisiness class. They have power outlets.
• Figure out the battery life of your netbook (say 3 hours) and buy enough batteries so you can swap them out as they die. (thats 5 batteries buddy!)
• Just take a couple of Ambien and get some drug induced sleep and forget about working.

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I don't think an iPad is able to run LAMP :

• Linux : definitly not -- but, OK, you could go without Linux : AMP will generally be enough
• Apache : I don't think so
• MySQL : same
• PHP : heu... I've heard once that it was possible to run some PHP script on an iPhone, but I don't think it'll be as great as the real thing...
  • For example, on Android, you can run PHP scripts, but only have a couple of very basic extension (no mysql extension, for example, to communicate with a MySQL server)

If you want to develop in PHP and run an [WLM]AMP stack, you'll probably need some kind of a "real" computer...

... SOme sort of netbook (i.e. eee-PC like) should generally be OK : the screen an keyboard are small (not perfect to develop), but battefry-life should be OK on some of those.

Else, some high-end portable computer have up to 4-6 hours of battery-life... Not 15h, though... you'll either need a couple of additional batteries (can you take those on a plane ? ), or an adapter to be able to charge it.

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Considering the cost of a Netbook and additional batteries, it may be worthwhile checking prices for upgrading to a (Business class? First class?) seat that offers a DC plug able to satisfy a "normal" laptop if you have one.