Re: Looping with a Netbook?

[Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com>]

I'm going to take a contrarian view here...

I use two Dell MINI netbooks, one 10" and one 9" that have been
"hackintoshed" (meaning they have been hacked to run Apple's OS X on
them). I am using them pretty extensively for looping and signal
processing, specifically with bidule.

As for the plug-ins, you have to be VERY judicious about what you use.
Because the maximum RAM you can load into them is 2GB, it's pretty
easy to run out of memory. I HAVE used both Alchemy and KORE Player
along with a number of other plugins (again, all w/in bidule) with
some success, but it can go over the line pretty quickly if you aren't
careful.

Considering that these can be had comparatively inexpensively (less
than US$ 200 on ebay). they are actually offering a lot of bang for
the buck. When EchoLoop goes live, they may well be even more useful.

So I'm going with YES YOU CAN! (Just be careful and a tad conservative
with your approach...)

Best,

Dennis

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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote:
> saw Kim Cascone's Dell Netbook yesterday and thought, I want one too, for
> looping and travelling. But would it have enough power (under Windows - 
>I'm
> a Windows user) to run Bidule and a whole bunch of plugins that are
> occasionally almost too much for my larger Vaio? those netbooks all seem 
>to
> have 1.6GHz and an Atom processor and a friend said he thinks it would be
> too weak for music purposes. Any experiences anyone?
>
> -Michael
>
>