[PD-ot] subnotebook/netbook w/ linux 4 electronic music?

[Michael Zacherl.]

Hallo João, 
I'm sort of used to IBM/Lenovo due to my day job until three years ago.
I think I still like their quality.
Unfortunately the website is just pretty but not that much helpful (or maybe it's just me).
However, they offer a pretty broad range of products which looks interesting.
I remember that Asus offer(ed) a small Eee with Meego (I think so) on it, which speaks for itself.
I'll look closer at the Ideapad range.
I didn't consider any particular audio interface so far. 
Multichannel is not a big issue, I got my Macs and my MOTU interface for that.
Novertheless a smaller box with just four outputs could be interesting.
We got RME and Apogee at the institute, PCMCIA is not supported on that small netbooks, AFAIKS.
Dan W. mentioned the Roland line of interfaces he uses, I'll look at that was well.
I'll keep you posted.
Thanks & soon, Michael.

On 27.8.2011, at 01:13 , João Pais wrote:

> I don't have a netbook, but I would be buying one at some point as well, when my 7-year-old thinkpad dies. I've done some basic research on this. I'm a fan of IBM/Lenovo, anyway. A friend of mine has an ideapad running Xp + ubuntu + hackintosh, everything ok.
> I guess that lenovo + asus have the best support for non-windows, but I might be outdated in this evaluation.
> 
> Did you consider using RME audio, like Multiface+Expresscard? Expensive, but very good. At least the pcmcia card worked out of the box with ubuntu, haven't heard any reports on the expresscard.
> 
> With base models of netbooks you might get the normal 1 Core, 1,6Ghz, 1Gb RAM, normal graphics. With expanded models, you can get more cores+speed+ram, and better graphics cards. At a price, of course.
> 
> João
> 
>> Hello,
>> in Weimar and Berlin I noticed quite a few people are using small laptops/netbooks.
>> 
>> I'm in the market for a netbook now and want to run linux w/ the usual suspects for experimental electronic music (Pure Data, SC, Ardour, Processing etc.)
>> Softwarewise Im currently looking at pure:dyne as the operating system.
>> But I'm open to suggestions.
>> 
>> What would you recommend for the hardware?
>> Last time I checked some products was in 2009.
>> I suppose battery life has improved, CPUs became a tad faster and linux runs a bit smoother on such a thing.
>> What I really barely can cope with is the glossy screens, but I'm afraid there's no way around it.
>> I'm planning to connect a USB-audio interface, so Firewire is not an issue (which Jack has troubles with, IIRC).
>> Very nice to have would be a built in modem w/ Sim-card slot for mobile data transfer. (Linux supported of course).
>> 
>> What would you suggest?
>> Thanks a lot,  Michael.



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