I highly recommend getting an Asus EEE PC. I bought the newest one and haven't had any trouble doing the work I want. Sometimes I have to remember this is just a netbook and that it will be slow.
I strongly recommend avoiding the cheaper alternatives. You get what you pay for with hardware. A friend of mine bought one from Dell and it has gone back 3 times for repairs already. He has hardly used it and couldn't take it with him on a big trip. Nothing is more frustrating than hardware that doesn't work as advertised. I guess we have high expectations from hardware, more so than our software. :) On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use an Asus EEEPC 1000 HD, it certainly doesn't have the full power > of a big laptop, but it does allow me to mix and edit the podcast on > the train, and also fits in my bicycle pack. > > I would recommend getting a true old fashioned hard drive based > netbook if you want to use it for this purpose. Solid state is really > nice for a lot of things, but the extra capacity of the hard drive is > going to be useful if you are mixing a lot of resource heavy audio, > and I still worry about the sheer number of writes on solid state > drives. YMMV. > > That said, I don't think it really matters which netbook you get to do > the work on, I know Acer and HP do good alternatives. Still, think > about a hard drive based one if you are planning to do a lot of audio > editing. > > Cheers > > Dick > > On Sep 5, 8:02 am, harijay <[email protected]> wrote: > > On some previous episode , Dick Wall mentioned that he once used an > > impulse purchase netbook from Target to mix the podcast. > > Just curious which netbook it was ? > > Thanks > > Hari > > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
