i use my lenovo s10 with max/msp and audiomulch. obvious limitations apply.
best, ---- Andrew Duke Cognition Audioworks <andrewd...@cognitionaudioworks.com> wrote: > 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
