Wow, big long thread here will take me some time to read but I know what the OP is saying. A few pages not mentioned already... The mysterious K Mandla gives 1

Wow, big long thread here will take me some time to read but I know what the OP is saying. A few pages not mentioned already... The mysterious K Mandla gives 10 reasons not to buy a new computer http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/ten-reasons-not-to-buy-a-new-computer/ http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/ten-reasons-not-to-b... The TOPLAP project (a real hack - give a teenager an old laptop and Ubuntustudio or similar, light blue touch paper, retreat). By the way, if anyone has resources for live-coding in puredata, please post here http://toplap.org/ http://toplap.org/ The Zero Dollar Laptop Project [1] and current progress [2] [1] http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/zero_dollar_laptop.html http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/zero_dollar_laptop.html [2] http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/ http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/ Now, I made a major discovery over the summer: I am actually more productive on a laptop than on a desktop with a large screen. Strange but true, so I am donating the desktops and adopting a couple of Thinkpads off Ebay (X60 from Dec 2006 and X200s from March 2010) as my major computational devices. One with Debian stock and the other with gNewSense 3.0 for a giggle.