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What about those mini laptops can you recomend one to use with mobius for ex.? > On 23.09.2014, at 14:13, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > > Read up at the Bidule forum on how far Bidule has come on the 64 bit > version. The people at Plogue will give you the best briefing. > http://www.plogue.com/phpBB2/index.php > > Last time I used Bidule was a few years back and I remember its 64 bit > version was almost unusable and with the 32 bit version the support > for multiple cores was also very flaky. I could only make it run well > in single core mode, but that's a kind of waste with today's powerful > i7 laptops. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.perboysen.com > http://www.youtube.com/perboysen > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Robert Craig Thomas > <robert@robertcthomas.com> wrote: >> I've been using a Lenovo T500 15" screen w 1680 resolution with 4gb at >> 25.3ghz on Windows 7 - 64bit all with good success, running Mobius >> inside of >> Ableton Live (Ableton 32-bit because of Mobius) and within Ableton >> running >> Kontakt with 4-6 instruments loaded (I use an EWI) plus various 3rd >> party >> plugins... and it's been running with even the tiniest burp. The T500 >> can >> apparently take 8gb of memory, but 4gb memory Simms are expensive (and >> I'm >> cheap) and it runs fine as is. >> >> I've also used a Lenovo T61 15" 1680 resolution w4gb mem, Win7 64bit >> with >> good success, but I like the T500 better. I use a firewire interface >> (Saffire) but always with a PCMCIA TI Firewire card, disabling the >> built-in >> firewire interface. >> >> Got the T500 on ebay (with 2gb mem) for €160 and the T61 (w 2gb mem) >> also on >> Ebay for €115. >> >> Windows 8 is on one of my older T60machines, but I don't really like it >> much >> and I've found no clear advantages over Win7 while using it so far. >> >> Just my two cents... for free ;-) >> >>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote: >>> >>> I've been using Bidule on a Sony Vaio with 32bit Windows Vista for some >>> years and I'm thinking of getting a new laptop, Windows 7 or 8. I >>> would use >>> it primarily for music, mostly for Bidule, sometimes also for Ableton >>> Live. >>> >>> The old Vista laptop works fine in principle, with two related >>> problems: >>> >>> 1. I use many 3rd party VST plugins. They all run ok but something >>> about >>> them (their memory management I guess) is often not stable and >>> especially in >>> large setups, this leads to Bidule crashing or hanging when I close >>> Bidule. >>> Sometimes Bidule hangs so bad I have to unplug USB devices to make the >>> process go away. After this, it often takes several attempts to make >>> all the >>> USB devices work correctly again. Of course, this is not something you >>> want >>> to happen in a live situation. Actually it would be nice if I could >>> make >>> several smaller specialized setups and switch between them for >>> different >>> pieces, but that is not reliable enough, so I ended up basically using >>> one >>> HUGE setup that contains everything I might ever need, so I don't have >>> to >>> switch. >>> >>> 2. Of course the big downside of this approach is that many plugins >>> eat up >>> processor power even when I don't need them. Going close to or beyond >>> 100% >>> processor usage happens often. Of course this is also something you >>> don't >>> need in a live situation. >>> >>> So, a new machine with more power. I don't want Apple machines for >>> several >>> reasons that don't need to be discussed here, so: >>> >>> - Windows 7 or 8 ? >>> >>> - 32bit or 64bit? I think most of the plugins I use are 32bit. Is >>> there a >>> downside to using a 64bit Windows and 64bit Bidule anyway? >>> >>> - What are the technical parameters that would make Bidule most happy? >>> >>> - My old laptop was heavy. Are there ultrabooks that are fast enough? >>> >>> - Any recommendations? >>> >>> 1000 thanks >>> >>> -Michael >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Robert C Thomas, Gütersloh, Germany >> Handy 0176 504 36157 - Home 05241 307 1777 >