OK, having used the Acer Netbook with Finale for the past couple of days: - Sound = no good. In a score with 7 staves, it can't keep up - it's like being back on the Mac Classic more than 10 years ago. This is with Garritan turned off, all sounds internally and no other applications running.
- Some of the palettes take up a bit of room. - Still, it's amazing how well Finale runs, on a basic level on this little machine. - I bought an external kbd and external mouse where I am for not much money and it makes the process so much better. The lack of screen real estate is the worst thing. For smaller scores, it's good enough to work in scroll view with the % at 53%. However, doing page layouts aren't much fun. Need to make extensive use of the zoom shortcuts. Matthew 2009/9/21 dhbailey <dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com> > Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > >> Friends, >> >> In response to my statement >> >> Well, by the time a machine gets large enough to have a full keyboard, it >>> is no longer called a "notebook pc". >>> >> >> dhbailey wrote, in part: >> >>> Huh? The box of my HP Pavilion computer called it a "notebook." ... >>> <snippage> ... >>> >> >> I thought maybe I had a bit of mental confusion, but I stopped at my >> favorite digital emporium, and I saw there that they tend to use the word >> "netbook" to refer to the smallest devices on display, and "laptop" for the >> largest ones, and "notebooks" for those in between. The machines on display >> with full size keyboards, and built in independent numeric keypads are all >> labeled "laptops", and none of the machines displayed as "notebooks" have an >> independent numeric keypad. >> > > That's just semantics -- we just bought a $349 notebook (I don't care what > the hell they label them) with a 15.3" screen which has a numeric keypad. > It's from Compaq and I just checked the box, where it is clearly called a > "notebook." > > Maybe your favorite electronics emporium needs to rethink it's > designations? ;-) > > > -- > David H. Bailey > dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com > _______________________________________________ > 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
