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

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Heh heh...oh, yes. Well HP discounts ain't what they used to be. I only got
a $100 discount....rather pathetic. So, street value of $1800. Good catch.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: Using a laptop onstage: Dominic Frasca's take is misguided


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
>
>