[microsound] OT: laptop for permanent sound installation - suggestions?

[Dan Heidebrecht]

i have used pd running on ubuntu in a long running installation - not
on a laptop but with one of these:

http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-zbox-zboxhd-ns21-u-intel-pentium-celeron-743-1-3-ghz-single-core-all-in-one-mini-pc.html

they are made for set top tv use and have a good bracket mounting
system. i just plugged in a monitor/keyboard for setup.

dan

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Michal Seta <mis at artengine.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:22 AM, mat dalgleish <matdalgleish at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure about Max 5, but one of my students once had Max 4.5 running on
>> Linux (Ubuntu if I remember correctly) under WINE:
>
> Perhaps a runtime is possible.  I never tried.  I did, however, run
> Max4.6 in ubuntu under Wine.  Cracked version, of course, because PACE
> does not work in such emulators.  It was illegal, I know, but I just
> had to try it :)  It was also unusable in the sense that UI was
> extremely slow and sound could not keep up.  I have a screenshot
> somewhere, I think.
>
> What I can say, however, is that I have experience using a netbook
> with similar specs for audio performances.  Max5 did not perform so
> well, Pd did a little better in Win7 but Pd in Linux was definitely a
> winner.
>
> In any case, to get back to the original question, no matter what
> software you want to run, the mentioned hardware is risky for a
> permanent installation.  My advice on running linux was only a
> side-note pertaining to the type of machine based on my personal
> experience in a non-permanent performance situation.  YMMV.
>
> ./MiS
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