Hello! I'm not quite shure, if this belongs here, or to the LAU list, but I am subscribed here, so this is why I post it here. First, let me explain: I'm in an urgent need for a notebook, as I am a university student (from Slovakia) working as a part time PHP programmer and playing in a (prog)rock band. I don't have much money I can spend on that book and I need it now, so I am considering buying a refurbished IBM ThinkPad 600X (PIII/450MHz, 128 or 256 MB RAM, 12 GB HDD). I'm not very demanding, but I would be very glad, if I could use it for performing music on stage. In the beginning maybe only playing a bit with PD and playing samples and loops. I had an idea (this is why I'm writing) to buy later a better desktop PC (with a good audio interface; maybe with a rack-mount case) which would be running some audio apps (Jack, softsynths, sequencer, ...) and could be controlled on stage via MIDI and/or from the notebook using VNC (or NX) or MIDI. Or do you have any suggestion, what could work better with lower latencies? Or is this idea foolish as a whole?
I'm also interested if it is worth thinking about Linux HPC clustering in a studio environment (Ardour with MPI?). Thank you! FerD
