thanks pall, i will chech out synfig :) re the dvd drive: i realise they are becoming increasingly uncommon; more than once i've been in the situation at a festival or conference where someone has urgently needed to burn a dvd in order to present something or play something in a performance, & no-one else except me has had a dvd burner in their laptop. i use it sometimes to burn things to post, i like to watch dvds on my laptop in bed, & i have a lot of stuff backed up on cds & dvds which i do sometimes need to view. i have several times found it useful when i've been travelling to have a built-in one, but i probably could live with a separate dvd drive.
h : ) On 22/03/16 4:11 26PM, Pall Thayer wrote: > Are you really sure that you need a DVD drive? They're becoming > increasingly uncommon on laptops. I recently updated my laptop to > a Toshiba Satellite S55T-B5150. I'm running Ubuntu and everything > works well and it's super fast. It comes with 16gb of ram which is not > upgradeable and there's no DVD option. 16gb is plenty for me and it > comes with an ssd drive which really helps with the speed. > > Synfig Studio (http://www.synfig.org/cms/) is a good vector-based > animation package that is easy to use. > > Pall > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:45 AM marc garrett <marc.garre...@gmail.com > <mailto:marc.garre...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi Helen, > > What size laptop are you after? > > marc > > On 22 March 2016 at 13:41, helen varley jamieson > <he...@creative-catalyst.com <mailto:he...@creative-catalyst.com>> > wrote: > > hi everyone, > i am seeking advice on 2 questions: > > firstly, i need to upgrade my laptop & have decided to make > the transition to linux. mint has been recommended to me for > the OS. does anyone out there have any advice regarding choice > of hardware? ideally i want a small laptop with a dvd drive, > ethernet port, & separate audio in & out ports. > > secondly, i'm working on an installation which includes > projected animated text. previously i've done this in a basic > but effective way with powerpoint. this time, i want more > control over the animations than powerpoint allows, and it > needs to be a looping video as it's going to be left running > on its own. can anyone recommend a good software for text > animation? (preferably open source). > > all ideas much appreciated, > h : ) > -- > helen varley jamieson > he...@creative-catalyst.com <mailto:he...@creative-catalyst.com> > http://www.creative-catalyst.com > http://www.upstage.org.nz > > > > /Unaussprechbarlich/, München, November-Dezember 2015 > <http://unaussprechbarlich.tumblr.com/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > <mailto:NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > -- > -- > > Marc Garrett > Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield. > > Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network > http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social > change since 1996 > > Furtherfield Gallery & Commons, > Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ > T +44(0)208 802 1301/+44(0)208 802 2827 > M +44(0)7533676047 > www.furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org <mailto:NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > -- > P Thayer, Artist > http://pallthayer.dyndns.org -- helen varley jamieson he...@creative-catalyst.com <mailto:he...@creative-catalyst.com> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.upstage.org.nz /Unaussprechbarlich/, München, November-Dezember 2015 <http://unaussprechbarlich.tumblr.com/>
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