I'm thinking of buying a netbook for real time csound performance with a midi
keyboard. I have no experience with realtime (actually, I've just read that
it can be done), so I'm wondering whether that would run smoothly on a
netbook or not (either because it isn't powerful enough or for some other
reason I'm not thinking about). I would appreciate any advice from you guys.

More specifically, I will probably buy a packard bell dot s (
http://www.packardbell.co.uk/showroom/netbooks/dot-s/dot-s-uk%2f031-LU.B900D.026-1686.html
http://www.packardbell.co.uk/showroom/netbooks/dot-s/dot-s-uk%2f031-LU.B900D.026-1686.html
) because it's the cheapest I've found, and I would install some netbook
oriented linux distro on it.

Netbooks are not as powerful as other notebooks. For live performance,
it depends on what you want to do. I can do some live stuff on my Acer
One netbook (Eeebuntu Linux, a variant of Ubuntu), but I'm not too
demanding. It would be helpful to know what you are planning to
perform. In general, if I were doing mainly live performance, I would
want a considerably more powerful machine.

Regards,
Mike

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:07 PM, qwfu  wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of buying a netbook for real time csound performance with a midi
> keyboard. I have no experience with realtime (actually, I've just read that
> it can be done), so I'm wondering whether that would run smoothly on a
> netbook or not (either because it isn't powerful enough or for some other
> reason I'm not thinking about). I would appreciate any advice from you guys.
>
> More specifically, I will probably buy a packard bell dot s (
> http://www.packardbell.co.uk/showroom/netbooks/dot-s/dot-s-uk%2f031-LU.B900D.026-1686.html
> http://www.packardbell.co.uk/showroom/netbooks/dot-s/dot-s-uk%2f031-LU.B900D.026-1686.html
> ) because it's the cheapest I've found, and I would install some netbook
> oriented linux distro on it.
>
>
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