I’ve had this netbook for about 4 months now. It’s an MSI Wind U100. Hackable: software and hardware. Basically everything you could possibly want in a fun little computer with wicked functions wrapped up in a tiny little package. I’ve had a few of these netbooks but the Wind is by far my favorite for general use and messing with.
I voided the warranty (bah – it’s for only one year anyway!) and I’ve upgraded the RAM swapped out the wireless card for one more to my liking. And just the other day I found out that the VDMX5 demo runs on this little guy with video out! Amazing! Resolume looked like someone passed the video out signal through a blender – but VDMX5 rocked a large 24 LCD with not even a hick-up and Audio out was right in sync. Next week I’ll try loading video from an SD card and see if that is fast enough for clips. MSI WIND + SDs for clips + Korg Nano Control / Pad – and presto I’ve got the smallest cheapest VJ set up in the world, could literally fit in my smallest messenger bag. Now if I could only build a set up that let me see everything on a 10 inch screen…
Hey there, I just came across your blog and wanted to quickly say just how very cool your postings are and thank you for sharing your insights and ask a question of you — I am getting into the VJ world and have been experimenting a bit on my MacPro with Modul8 and VDMX5. I want to start performing but I don’t own a laptop and I’m working on limited funds to acquire one… I was already really interested in the possibility of using a netbook for such purposes but your post really tweaked my curiosity. Could you please provide a bit more information about how functional the MSI Wind is running on VDMX5 (ie how many different video layers can you run, general performance, issues operating on such a small screen, etc)… I would really appreciate your insight as I am trying to make a call on this… Thanks!