Home/ Questions/Q 922511
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-15T19:02:38+00:00

I will be flying to Australia (~15 hr. flight) and I’d like to continue

  • 0

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 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!

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    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.

    • 0