Hi David. Good points made. I would be buying a netbook for ultra-portability. Extra equipment in the travelling sense would not be necessary (i assume most experienced users will have the sounds in their heads and not need speakers or processing devices). My thoughts about extra add-ons are purely 'back-at-base' setups - monitors can be plugged-in, speakers and recording devices connected at home etc - so purely i would be buying for the convenience of carrying around an electronic sketchbook.
Best regards, Mark Houghton ________________________________________ From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of David W. Fenton [lists.fin...@dfenton.com] Sent: 21 September 2009 00:20 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] smallest notebook for Finale? On 20 Sep 2009 at 13:59, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > All in all, though, except for installation, it's really a matter of > semantics. From the specs, provided one has an external DVD drive with > USB interface so that one can actually load the software, it appears to > me that Finale should run reasonably well on the smallest Windows > Netbook, although the screen size might make it a bit of a challenge. I assumed when this discussion started that list readers already understood the meaning of the term "netbook." But it's quite obvious from the comments that they don't. I can't see the point of those behemoth laptops that have full keyboards. They are so huge and heavy that I would never carry one of them anywhere (my laptop is nowhere near that huge and a pain to carry even so). I don't understand why that class of machines exists. Netbooks exist for the purpose of providing ultraportability at the cost of serving as a desktop replacement. They are designed for light computing duty, though today's computers are powerful enough that this covers almost all the software that most people use regularly. It doesn't include heavy-duty graphics or video editing, nor heavy- duty audio, but as a machine to take with you on the road to print out and tweak Finale scores, I think they are fine. No, the screens are not large, but that's the whole point. If you can't give up the large screen, then don't buy a netbook! -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
