Re: looping with a netbook

[Mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 10:58 PM -0600 6/6/10, Dennis Moser wrote:
>
>I have, for the past 8 or so months been working with two Dell Mini
>Netbooks: a 9" and a 10", which have been hacked and are running Snow
>Leopard/Mac OS X. SooperLooper and Mobius both work, I use Kore
>Player,  and I'm using bidule. Granted, I record off of the mixer to a
>TASCAM DR100, but bidule would also let me record if I chose to do so.
>I master in Reaper later on a Mac G5.
>
>If done right, the Dell Mini or the Lenovo equivalent can do quite a
>good job for this kind of thing. And it's still less money than buying
>a new "official" Mac. But you do have to think about it and work it
>out.

Dennis beat me to this same conclusion....  ;)

I was just about to make a similar recommendation: do a quick 
google-search on "hackintosh".  There are several online 
reviews/tutorials, and quite a number of people running OSX on their 
Netbooks.

I'm preparing to blast my wife's HP Mini 1000 netbook and install 
10.6 on there myself.  I hear from a few people that it works very 
nicely.  It's been a while since I did a comparison (circa ~Win2k/XP) 
but I've always found that almost *any* other OS makes better use of 
the Intel chip's horsepower than Windows.  That's why I spent most of 
the 90's nuking my PC's and installing Linux or BeOS.  As I said, I 
haven't checked for a while, but I'd bet that it's still the case. 
If so, OSX should run more efficiently on a Netbook than its 
pre-installed OS.

However, there was a previous question that asked about running Live 
in Wine under Linux.  While Linux should be more robust overall, I 
believe the Wine libraries essentially load a virtual Wiindows 
machine.  So you're kind of running a computer inside a computer. 
Not very efficient, I don't believe, and I wouldn't recommend it, 
since Wine would probably eat up any performance gains you'd get from 
Linux.  However, take that with a grain of salt, since I haven't 
actually played with Wine since its alpha releases.

And Dennis, what version of OSX are you running on your Netbooks? 
I'd heard that there was no problem through 10.6.2, but that there 
were some issues if you moved up to the latest 10.6.3.

Thanks!

        --m.

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