Logging into our database can be somewhat heavy, as can our accounting system, but in both cases the actual processing is happening on a server.
I don't actually care about a docking station, I use one at work now but I don't hook a monitor up to it or a keyboard -- the only benefit it's bringing me is (a) I don't have to go searching for wherever the ethernet cable might have gone to since I unplugged last! and (b) the docking station has the CD drive, my X60 doesn't come with it in the computer itself .. more than fine, my need for such things is VERY rare, but once in a great moon I need it.
May be missing something but the Aspire One looks like it's pretty heavy? I like the base weight of 1.72 pounds on the Toshiba my IT folks suggested for me. But know nothing other than what I reading on the screen on their website...