My one away from home gig was with a dance company. i had written the bulk of the work at home but had to do some rewrites on the road and the weak laptop made it difficult. I wished many times I had packed up my whole system in the car.
Right now I am typing on my wife's mini computer, which she loves, but... At any rate, I am taking the desktop in for a new power supply or whatever, in a few minutes. Shop where i bought it promises a low bill and a 1-2 day turnaround, so i think I will survive this week, and will put off the new system purchase a bit. Raymond Horton Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC Composer, Arranger VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bath...@maltedmedia.com> wrote: > On Tue, December 18, 2012 8:53 am, Raymond Horton wrote: >> Do you think the Toshiba laptop described would make a good second PC, >> capable of running Finale and Garritan? > > Can't help you there -- I seriously dislike laptops for scoring, and don't use > them for any serious work. I have the big laptop running Linux, so no Finale > there. Laptop screens are too small for scoring work. > > My little Dell netbook works great for special purposes and for keeping a > diary when traveling. I actually used the netbook for my opera -- I couldn't > afford to bring in a cimbalom player, so got a customized set of cimbalom > samples from Bolder Sounds and ran it using Finale's Aria player driven from > an external Kurzweil keyboard. > > I do like my customized desktop system with its big monitors and fast hard > drives. (When I'm traveling, I pretty much switch to paper and pencil and > enter the music when I get back home.) > > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
