looking for netbook

[bad sector]

Non -Negotiable:
max 10-11", intel-quad, nvidia, 8gb, 500+gb drive, non-Asus, if not
Linux-friendly then at least Linux-polite. I just spent a day grafting
rosegarden into my eepc but it rejected the host (not enough CPU).

[crankypuss]

I have a laptop and 2 netbooks made by Acer, all with Linux installed, 2
dual-booting Windows. Most are 1gb ram as standard, upgradable to 2gb.
Beats me what is available ram-wise, but Acer netbooks and laptops
seem quite pleased to run Linux. Check the models and see what you
like, or not. I bought an after-market 7800mah battery for the AOD257
that I run with 2g ram and a 60g SSD, and it runs 10-11hrs on battery.
Drive-size seems like a nit, you can buy a 2.5" sata drive in pretty
much any size and swap it out. Ram limitations look like the toughie if
you really do need 8gb, but I'm not current on their offerings.

[Pinnerite]

I have had an Asus EEPC 901 since they came out. It has had several Linux
operating systems on it even running Windows XP as a guest of Mandriva Linux
via VirtualBox as an experiment. It worked but was too slow for practical
purposes. It currently has PClinuxOS and has been used (literally) all over
the world.

When it was just under 12 months old, the screen seemed to die. Within a few
days it was collected, motherboard replaced and returned with all my data
intact.

Rosegarden is a bit of a hungry beast. I think the eepc would be pushing it
a bit.

PNHB (Probably no help but).

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[bad sector]

One of my sons also has two acers; he keeps replacing the older one
routinely and this has been his method for about a decade now. Seems to
me I've seen some full HD i7 (not even hybrid) pads but no 10" netbooks.

[bad sector]

On 10/25/2012 09:14 AM, Pinnerite wrote:
> I have had an Asus EEPC 901 since they came out. It has had several Linux
> operating systems on it even running Windows XP as a guest of Mandriva Linux
> via VirtualBox as an experiment. It worked but was too slow for practical
> purposes. It currently has PClinuxOS and has been used (literally) all over
> the world.
>
> When it was just under 12 months old, the screen seemed to die. Within a few
> days it was collected, motherboard replaced and returned with all my data
> intact.
>
> Rosegarden is a bit of a hungry beast. I think the eepc would be pushing it
> a bit.

It sure is, and I don't realy know if the 'issue' it has with my eepc is
multitasking or speed related. I might have seen a very pricey 10" NEC
vistapro or something once but can't remember if it was i7 based.
Actually I'd settle for some AMD quad too but it has to be 10", weight,
endurance, thickness... none of those matter.

My eepc has been around too & the first thing I did was increase ram to
limits and swap-in a 500gb drive. Frankly my only beef until now has
been that KDE is not easy to fit on account of the resolution (speaking
of another HOG!). I 'could' relax my specs to 12" & there are some
interesting offers in that size but I want to avoid compromise if possible.

Maybe time has come for portables to go the PC clone route too :-)

[ray]

Your specs seem to me to point to a laptop rather than a netbook.

[bad sector]

It has to be small to be velcroed to my small guitar amp, I have bigger
ones all over the place to use in bigger setups. I think there actually
was a 10" NEC like what I want but it's no longer in production (aaaand
it was like well over $2k)

[crankypuss]

Dunno, my AOD257 netbook is 10.1" and the other netbook is 8.9" (as I
recall).

Keyboard layout of the arrow keys is a little funky and takes some
getting used to, that's my only complaint.

[bad sector]

I need the i7 or comparable CPU, the root problem being underprocessing.
Afraid they're not going to make another one like that NEC, not enough
demand.

[Jasen Betts]

On 2012-10-25, bad sector <forgetski@postit_INVALID_.gov> wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 09:14 AM, Pinnerite wrote:
>> I have had an Asus EEPC 901 since they came out. It has had several Linux
>> operating systems on it even running Windows XP as a guest of Mandriva Linux
>> via VirtualBox as an experiment. It worked but was too slow for practical
>> purposes. It currently has PClinuxOS and has been used (literally) all over
>> the world.
>>
>> When it was just under 12 months old, the screen seemed to die. Within a few
>> days it was collected, motherboard replaced and returned with all my data
>> intact.
>>
>> Rosegarden is a bit of a hungry beast. I think the eepc would be pushing it
>> a bit.
>
> It sure is, and I don't realy know if the 'issue' it has with my eepc is
> multitasking or speed related. I might have seen a very pricey 10" NEC
> vistapro or something once but can't remember if it was i7 based.
> Actually I'd settle for some AMD quad too but it has to be 10", weight,
> endurance, thickness... none of those matter.

how about run rosegarden on a real floor-standing pc and use the EEPC
as a terminal to cntrol it.

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[bad sector]

No need to, there are slightly bigger portables more than capable of
handling it. I was looking for minimal footprint because I wanted to
velcro tape it to my guitar amp and there's not much surface on there.
However if anyone else is interested in this, I'm now facing up to the
likely necessity of using a larger portable and rigging myself a shelf
like extension above the amp. The portable will be velcroed to that. I
want to be able to grab the amp by the handle and move everything with
it, no scattered parts on the floor connected by cables. I've seen one
guy get badly injured taking one helluva ride off the stage like that
and I never wanna even approximate the mess that led up to it. So to sum
up I'll fasten 2 vertical 1/4" pipes to the back vertical edges of the
amp and then just pin the shelf like structure made from maybe 3/13"
soft metal wire in there, designed to fail before it rips the amp open
in case of upset.

[Whiskers]

On 2012-10-31, bad sector <forgetski@postit_INVALID_.gov> wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 06:24 AM, Jasen Betts wrote:

[...]

>> how about run rosegarden on a real floor-standing pc and use the EEPC
>> as a terminal to cntrol it.
>
> No need to, there are slightly bigger portables more than capable of
> handling it. I was looking for minimal footprint because I wanted to
> velcro tape it to my guitar amp and there's not much surface on there.
> However if anyone else is interested in this, I'm now facing up to the
> likely necessity of using a larger portable and rigging myself a shelf
> like extension above the amp. The portable will be velcroed to that. I
> want to be able to grab the amp by the handle and move everything with
> it, no scattered parts on the floor connected by cables. I've seen one
> guy get badly injured taking one helluva ride off the stage like that
> and I never wanna even approximate the mess that led up to it. So to sum
> up I'll fasten 2 vertical 1/4" pipes to the back vertical edges of the
> amp and then just pin the shelf like structure made from maybe 3/13"
> soft metal wire in there, designed to fail before it rips the amp open
> in case of upset.

Wouldn't it be "cooler" to use a Bluetooth or WiFi link between the box
with the amp in it and the box with all the fancy software?

Or strap the amp and the computer to a luggage trolley, or one of those
four-wheeled shopping trolleys; call it Granny-punk!

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[bad sector]

I got me the parts today, by Monday it'll fly. The idea is to minimize
stage clutter, yeah I could put the laptop on a chair here, the amp over
there, a huge promter over there etc. My idea is to keep it all in one
'ready to grab and run when you hear sirens' package :-)

[Whiskers]

Ah; so make that a motorised shopping trolley!