Netbook DAW

[gutturalpiss]

I'm not talking about getting an Eee, installing a stripped and lean Windows, and then playing around with a limited set of production tools with limited capabilities for the hardware. I'm talking about a full-fledged netbook DAW solution for the UMPC age (which is now, today, and for years to come) and especially for people like blueprintstudios =p





Spotted something like this from other vendors around?

 

[blueprintstudios]

haha wahhh. nice. although I must say right now I rely alot on my trusty free-starhublaptop compaq 1.66ghz 1gb ram with firewire port cos i use it together with my presonus firepod. this thing's lacking a firewire port so that becomes a no no for me. BUT it also means that with this, laptop prices will drop... and then desktop prices will drop even more... now the trend is going barebone pc , so you get cheapcost/power of a desktop, portable, but not functional on-the-go.


i wonder though, DAW on the small thing. what about the inputs?? will all the audio interfaces support?

 

[gutturalpiss]

Oops..I think they have different models, that one's more of a small laptop. I was actually refering to this instead (with FireWire):

http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?s=lenovo+S10

I think notebook and desktop prices have already dropped, so it's a good sign of cheaper hardware to come.

The mini laptop version has only the conventional mic/line-in, so it'll work just like any other laptop without an interface.

The S-10 netbook though has FireWire, so the support we're seeing here is for devices like Echo, Focusrite and Presonus primarily. A technical list is available at the FW driver site if one really wants to be cautious - http://ffado.org/?q=devicesupport/list

I have the same compaq (v3000), and I don't think its horsepower is any different from these netbooks. But still need to think whether SGD730 is worth it, given the preloaded stuff inside. I'll be getting a portable interface (most probably the smallest Focusrite or Echo), so a netbook seems like a good investment to me at this moment until I see something else interesting.

 

[blueprintstudios]

yeah, it's definitely similar horse power level compared to the one i'm using, but same sentiment here.. $700sgd can get me some 1.5terabyte x 3 hdds cos i eat hdd space like nobody's business doing audio/video + double copying everything I got.

OR, top up a couple hundred bucks more and I can get a desktop that's more powerful than my current.

so yeah my plans so far is to abuse my netbook/laptop/desktop until either one blows up, then by then $700 can get something more than what they have now.

thanks for the heads up too man