Re: Looping with a PC laptop... which one?

[Catilyne <catilyne@icicle.net>]

At 05:55 PM 9/29/2003 -0700, msottilaro wrote:

>That's why I'm looking for a laptop.  Rack-mounted PCs are sweet, but I'm 
>going for stealth and speed.  I loose flexibility, but hopefully it will 
>still be fun playing live sound collage with my prerecorded material.

Mark,

What you're going for sounds way kewl, but I'm wondering if you might be 
wandering into oversize/overkill with some of the available options.  
Since 
you seem to place a high priority on 'fast & light', I'd look at one of 
the 
smaller notebooks (aside: heck, has anybody tried running Ableton on a 
palmtop yet?).

And given the fact that you've expressed some interest in both the Apple 
PowerBook and the Sony Vaio, I'm wondering if you might be able to find 
something suitable for less dinero on the used/refurbished market.  The 
Vaio's been around for quite a while and has been a good piece of gear 
pretty much since its inception.  And you can get one of the tiny G3 
iBooks 
that's been factory-refurbed for a decent amount of money too.  Depends on 
your desired platform/poison.

However, bleeding edge laptops are probably just going to have most of 
their market value evaporate.  So why not consider something a bit behind 
the curve, which will better fall into your price range and still do an 
admirable job supporting your apps?

         -c-

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