Test of HP vrs Netbook


System 1
HP Intel Core Quad CPU @ 2.33GHz
6 Megs of ram
8 megs of fast chache via 8 gig SD card used by Vista 65 bit
2 500 gig hard drives
1 external hard drive with Ultra Pak provided by PG music with usb 2 connection

Test 1 Satin Doll 32 bars 3 verses zzjazz style press play, starts in under 3 seconds with stick count in one Realtrack Drums
Note: midi is Ketron SD2 for both systems via Edirol usb interface.


Test 2 Satin Doll 32 bars 3 verses Dream Jazz Ballad Quartet, all realband except for melody, 18 seconds to start from clicking play.

System 2

Acer Aspire Netbook 1 gig memory windows xp Home sp3 @1.6 GHz
120 gig hard drive
1 external hard drive with Ultra Pak provided by PG music with usb 2 connection (same as above just moved the unit.)

Satin Doll 32 bars 3 verses RealDrums only realtrack 5.5 seconds to start (about 2 seconds slower)
Satin Doll 32 bars 3 verses Dream Jazz Ballad all Realtracks 28 seconds to start (about 10 seconds slower)

NOTE: 1. I have not installed the software on the system it just resides on the external usb hard drive in both cases.
2. Having the song files on the computer vrs the external drive makes no difference in load times.

Question for support? Where are the audio files written, if it's back to the external hard drive via usb that might be a configurable option to override and have a temp folder elsewhere?

3. I cannot boost xp's performance via SD card the way Vista does, so with 6 gigs of memory and 8 gigs of cache boost on the desktop you see the numbers and be the judge!

Note in both cases I did use RealDrums and Satin Doll was in a directory on the Ultra Pak hard disk.

John Conley
Musica est vita