From jackoverfull@gmail.com Thu May 17 06:23:41 2012
Subject:Re: VB3 and PC3


Il giorno 17/mag/2012, alle ore 15.09, mark k ha scritto:

> Why do you keep going back for more when the operating system crashes so regularly and hardware constantly fails? Isn't time to go back to doing presentations on paper, no power supply or dust problems and bumping the easel might add to your audience's entertainment?.
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Perhaps because the gains are worth the risk?

> The earlier point was that the most strident laptop naysayers are those who don't and haven't gigged with them.
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I did. Used to do so 'til september.

And, by the way, you're probably the one person that never had a computer crashing under his finger.

> It is interesting that this topic creates this amount of heat. There are many here who do not own say a Nord (or XK3 or VK88) but we don't trot out all the reasons why not each time a comment is made on the merits of Nord (or XK3 or VK88).
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> >>My brand new $1,500 Lenovo laptop crapped out on me last year after just three months of use--while I was just sitting at my desk. Hard disk failure, no warning whatsoever. Fortunately, it was still under warranty. Unfortunately, it took nearly a month to get it back.
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> >>Even before it died (and even after it came back 'fixed') it still would occasionally lock up or crash or flash a blue screen of death without warning. No different than any other desktop or laptop I've ever owned. Just the nature of Windows.
> >> (and, yes, I have been on the presenting and receiving end of many
> presentations where the laptop crashed right in the middle of the Powerpoint presentation).
> >>You're relying on the club's power supply (hoping they do have adequate
> line protection), you're placing your laptop in an area where there's
> probably lots of dust, and it's certainly very vulnerable to vibrations.
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> >>I'm not a gigging musician, so it's no skin off my nose.
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