subnotebook/netbook w/ linux 4 electronic music?

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

"Michael Zacherl." <mubar04 at blauwurf.at> wrote:

>Hi there,
>I browsed my archives and found that this has been discussed once in a
>while.
>
>I'm in the market for a netbook and want to run linux w/ the usual
>suspects for experimental electronic music (SuperCollider, Pure Data,
>Ardour, Processing etc.)
>Softwarewise Im currently looking at pure:dyne.
>What would you recommend for the hardware?
>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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I would recommend running linux on any macbook that's a year or two old (so you don't have to hack about with drivers too much). The netbooks don't appeal to me at all. Being CPU bound is pointless just for a few hundred bucks. A decent CPU with large L2 cache is really awesome for SuperCollider or pd, and there's never any point in being less than awesome.

Tony (HB)