PC Notebooks and Cleaning up the startup menu

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

Per, offshoot question...or anyone using a PC based notebook. These days 
PCs 
load a lot of crap in the startup menu, which takes up resources and cache 
memory. Yet is is hard to determine what is critical or not. Anyone have 
any 
recommendations on what one can remove from the startup menu of a brand 
new 
notebook? Or how does one find out what all those programs do, which are 
cryptically named and shown when you open your Task Manager and look in 
the 
Processes tab?

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: Buying a laptop for Mobius


> On 10 maj 2006, at 07.15, mark t wrote:
>
>> I have always been a mac guy.  I got a g4 powerbook and a g5.  I am
>> "considering" getting a pc laptop to soley use Mobius.  Any of you
>> seasoned PC guys recomend me something good and affordable.  You know
>> the deal....I would like to be able to run 8 stereo loops comfortably
>> without gliches and crashes and to much stress on the machine.  So
>> help me out whats a good solid machine to use for soley Mobius.  thanks.
>
>
> I have a PC laptop based on the centrino concept and it's fine for 
> Mobius. The CPU is a Pentium M 755, 2 GHz Dothan. 1 GB ram. I'm using  
>an 
> Indigo Echo stereo (two in/outputs) sound card or a RME Multiface  when 
>I 
> need eight physical in/output + digital. Both are PCMCIS  cardbus based. 
> MIDI is handled by a USB MIDI link (on MIDI in + one  MIDI out). That's 
> totally glitch free and runs eight stereo tracks of  as many loops I 
>need. 
> I have no other software installed on the pc  except for Mobius and some 
> other music application, just the plain XP  service pack 2. No anti 
>virus 
> and I never bring it onto the internet.
>
> Like you I do most of my work in OS X on Macs (I also have a g4 pbook  
>and 
> a dual G5) and I think that if I should have gotten into Mobius  today I 
> wold have been looking for one of the new intel based Macs  instead. 
>It's 
> just so boring to travel with the PC laptop and don't  have access to my 
> other fav tools like Logic, Metasynth, Numerology  or Augustus Loop.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
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