On 7/7/10 6:46 PM, Jean-Noël Montagné wrote:
hello
As a promoter of the zerodollarlaptop project, I would suggest that:
- you only change your harddisk for a better, faster one, may be a ssd,
- install a double or triple or quadruple boot, to have any distro you
want. My mac with double boot puredyne and osx is perfectly working.
(boot with efi)
Compelling ideas indeed -- if everything is fine about the computer
except an aging hard drive (which hasn't crashed yet), I don't have a
persuasive reason to junk the whole machine.
On that note -- how hard would it be to remap ctrl to the Apple command
key, and "enter" to be an alternate option key? The MBP keyboard is
complete crap for Emacs, which would be my primary supercollider
interface (actually it already is in OSX by way of Aquamacs). Without
this remapping, the ergonomics would be disastrous.
Lukasz:
Laptops in general should not be considered as "power horses". Fast
ones are just crazy hot and eat up baterries fast. Sure enough for any
gig anyway.
I suppose some of that depends on what you use. Supercollider doesn't
waste cycles on a flashy GUI and its DSP units are well optimized. It's
really rare for me to go above 25% CPU for DSP, even in live real-time
work (I write my DSP graphs with efficiency in mind also). So I don't
need the kind of power horse you would need for a DAW but I do need
something that will let me code in an airport or on the bus if a gig is
out of town (which Andy's suggestion wouldn't). My netbook is fine for
light sketching but FFT drives it into the ground pretty fast -- so I
need more horsepower than that!
Bernardo:
I wonder if in such a modern computer is still a big
difference in speed between Gnome and Xfce?
Probably not, but I see a lot of clutter in recent Gnome screenshots.
I'm finding the simplicity and cleanliness of xfce4 to be very pleasant,
even compared to OSX and its boasting about a refined user experience.
Thanks for all the ideas! Plenty to consider.
James
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