[Arturo Lopez <[email protected]>] > 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.
I have the Samsung NC10 Special Edition with 2GB of RAM and I totally love it. I do most of my music in Renoise (http://www.renoise.com/) and it works great on the netbook-- Renoise even has a special "netbook mode" that hides parts of the GUI you're not currently using so that it works much better on the small display. That said, I don't use the netbook as my primary compisition computer... I mostly just carry it around with me as a sort of musical sketchbook. It's great because it's super small and super light, so I can carry it wherever I go and the battery lasts for about 9 hours, so I have no trouble using it on trips or whatever. I don't even usually bring the charger with when I carry it to work. It's great to be able to work on "sketches" of tracks and then bring them back to my real studio and flesh them out with better synths, effects, etc... There's no way I'd want to lug my main laptop around with me all the time (I hate that I even have to bring it to gigs), so this is a perfect solution for when you want to work on tracks anywhere other than your studio. -- :: atomly :: [ [email protected] : www.atomly.com : http://blog.atomly.com/ ... [ atomiq records : new york city : +1.917.442.9450 ... [ e-mail [email protected] for atomly info and updates ...
