Hello,
in Weimar and Berlin I noticed quite a few people are using small laptops/netbooks.
I'm in the market for a netbook now and want to run linux w/ the usual suspects for experimental electronic music (Pure Data, SC, Ardour, Processing etc.)
Softwarewise Im currently looking at pure:dyne as the operating system.
But I'm open to suggestions.
What would you recommend for the hardware?
Last time I checked some products was in 2009.
I suppose battery life has improved, CPUs became a tad faster and linux runs a bit smoother on such a thing.
What I really barely can cope with is the glossy screens, but I'm afraid there's no way around it.
I'm planning to connect a USB-audio interface, so Firewire is not an issue (which Jack has troubles with, IIRC).
Very nice to have would be a built in modem w/ Sim-card slot for mobile data transfer. (Linux supported of course).
What would you suggest?
Thanks a lot, Michael.
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