RE: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-28 Thread George Jones IV - logic7
Subject: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications? 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

Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-28 Thread kuszyn...@gmail.com
Subject: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications? 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

Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-24 Thread Arturo Lopez
Thanks for all the suggestions! Looks like some of you have been bogged down by slower machines, good to know. It does seem like a 'regular' laptop is probably a better choice, at least for HD space and processing power, and not much additional cost. I'm a PC guy (won't get into the mac debate

Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-24 Thread atomly
[Arturo Lopez arturo.m.lo...@gmail.com] 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

Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-24 Thread /0
i use my lenovo s10 with max/msp and audiomulch. obvious limitations apply. best, Andrew Duke Cognition Audioworks andrewd...@cognitionaudioworks.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Arturo Lopezarturo.m.lo...@gmail.com wrote: Was wondering if anyone out there had any

(313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-23 Thread Arturo Lopez
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. Concerned a bit weather a $250 netbook has a beefy enough

Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-23 Thread kent williams
Not tried one yet. But I have to think that a good comparison would be my laptop which is a 1.7ghz Pentium M, which gets completely bogged down by anything other than the simplest of Ableton Live 8 sets. And a netbook with enough storage and memory to be actually useful is more than $250 -- I'd

Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-23 Thread robin
The Intel Atom processor is very low powered (in all meanings of the word). Anecdotally for a 1.3GHz Atom read 800 MHz Pentium 3. You might get better mileage for music from a Via Nano. I looked into this a while back and decided against it. robin... On 23 Jun 2009, at 17:10, kent

Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-23 Thread robin
Hi Kevin, Not sure if that was to the list too but I've also tried Live 6 on a eee pc 1000 with 1GB memory and an HD. It crawled with 3 tracks but then it was running my normal dj set with a couple of Live effects. I was also using the internal sound (offloading to a sound card should

Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-23 Thread Ronny Pries
Remute is playing live off his MSI Wind netbook so it's gotta work somehow. Can ask him for specs, if it's of any interest. 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

Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-23 Thread Andrew Duke Cognition Audioworks
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Arturo Lopezarturo.m.lo...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-23 Thread david smith
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Re: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications?

2009-06-23 Thread kuszyn...@gmail.com
- Original Message - From: Arturo Lopez arturo.m.lo...@gmail.com To: Three-One-Three 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:00 PM Subject: (313) Netbooks; worth it for music applications? Was wondering if anyone out there had any experience running any music applications