Re: Using a laptop onstage: Dominic Frasca's take is misguided

[Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

And that was $1700 street value, not with an HP or Intel employee discount?

TravisH

On 1/5/06, Kris Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:
> I bought that notebook for $1700, and that was over two years ago. I also
> use it for all my personal computing needs...email, graphics, website
> building, serving the web, documents, etc...so I get my money's worth.
> That's not bad:  stereo looping with Mobius, and a few basic effects. 
>With
> that scenario, I wouldn't be able to justify buying two EDPs, and a
> rackmount unit that had chorus, reverb, and delay. We're already talking
> over $2000 there.  But that's just one scenario, not the one I'm using to
> perform now. Maybe if I decide to go back to just basic-tone acoustic 
>guitar
> looping, I'll go to that system. I'm still trying to convince myself to 
>do
> that, but I'm a sucker for cool VST effects...like Cycling 74 Hipno, 
>which I
> MUST have now, thanks to Rick! . :)
>
> Kris
>
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