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console
Fluxbox, perhaps?
@Aldryic, will give that a try!
KDE is the obvious choice for the lowest use of system resources.
Cinnamon
Uhh, what? LXDE and Fluxbox are way better choices.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_desktop_vitals&num=1
Gnome 3 is what I like to use personally. It may not be the best for battery but from a productivity standpoint, it is the best
LXDE or e17 are great for minimal
KDE is one of the most resource intensive DE's
Man you guys are easy.
Crunchbang
xfce
fvwm
I love using this when I'm on my notebook and on servers, It is amazing and quick too.
The other hand, on my desktop (2Monitors), Gnome 2 takes the heat
. New gnome sucks 
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I like xmonad. It's a great coding environment that's extremely simple and quick.
You must be trolling...
Anyhow, definitely have a look at XFCE - it's very similar to GNOME2, but much lighter. If you want to go even lighter, look at IceWM.
I'm looking into xmonad as well. Seems very interesting.
OMFG, a Haskell environment! o_O!
Fluxbox or LXDE.
If for battery life, go with Awesome. But, it all depends on what your doing.
LXDE
I like Openbox myself.
xterm in failsafe mode.
I'd likely go XFCE or flux
Francisco
XFCE. I orginally installed it 3 years on a low end system (256mb ram, 700mhz Celeron, Intel graphics) and have used it ever since on every linux system I needed a GUI on.
Xfce is the best and lxde is very nice too, very light weight but still useful and not crazy like fluxbox.
If you need graphical applications, then go for icewm, jwm or fluxbox. (Or console + the apps you need in your .xinitrc & startx). If it is for note taking, or anything which can be done in a non graphical environment then stay at the console.
Music playing? --> moc
Chatting on IM? --> centerim or finch
irc? --> irssi
note-taking, text editing? --> nano, vim, emacs, ed, echo or any text editor you like. Need markup? Learn to type in mediawiki/dokuwiki/markdown/LaTeX and export it later on.
picture viewing? --> feh (with framebuffer)
multiple applications in one session? tmux / screen / nohup $app & / CTRL+Z
Email? --> mutt, cone, pine, alpine
rss? --> snownews
browsing? --> w3m, links, elinks, lynx, links2
graphical browsing? --> netsurf / links2 -g + framebuffer
So you said you needed X?
console or LXDE
twm
Actually, yes, that is what I use on a couple servers where I must use a graphical tool for a product but otherwise manage it all by command line.
they say kubuntu eats up too much memory. lubuntu much better for low end.
Try LXDE its quiet good
XFCE (general use), FLWM (when light GUI needed), bare Openbox-session for VNC on LEBs when X-fwd is impractical...
Openbox or XFCE. Both are really lightweight.