On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Arturo Lopez<arturo.m.lo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Was wondering if anyone out there had any experience running any music
applications on a netbook? Seems like it might be a nice/cheap
solution for running ableton/serato/whatever and quite a bit more
portable than a larger laptop. Concerned a bit weather a $250 netbook
has a beefy enough processor to handle these apps, but then again
people were running those apps on slower laptops 3 or 4 years ago.
Hmm. I'd imagine you'd have to buy an external soundcard though.
I bought my last laptop literally the day after it arrived in store and
I got the best
one I could find at the time, plus souped it up with extra RAM/etc. I
managed
to get 6 years out of it until, in a blink of an eye, my 2 year old
daughter decided
to "imitate Daddy" and "use" it (read as "bang the keyboard with her
fists and
knocked it on the hardwood floor"). The place I bought it from, who've
always
been very good to me, told me it would cost more to replace the hard drive
and keyboard than to buy a new laptop, so (to finally get to the point)
I decided
that if my next laptop might also bite the dust in such a way, I would
get a netbook.
I was very close to buying one, but after doing some research I found
that most
said it was great for email/internet/simple non-CPU-hogging tasks (thus the
netbook name) and not at all good for CPU-intensive stuff like audio,
that is
unless you were willing to have a lot of patience. While you might be
able to
get by with patience in the studio, I figure using it for live situations
like live PAs and DJing it just won't cut the mustard and those
listening won't
care that it is on account of yer using a netbook.
When I have some money (not in the near future with a 2.25 year old and
a 1 week old in the house!), I will buy a new portable rig, but it will be a
small *laptop*.
Hope this helps with your decision, Arturo. Let us know what you end up
buying and how it works for you.
Take care.
Andrew
