Xp home on both machines. The vaio is quite old, broken hinge, and I don't regularly use it.

I have an HP quadcore 1 terabyte with 6 gigs of memory beside my Roland keyboard in the big family room. I run that into a Behringer power mixer with 15 inch speakers.

Upstairs I use the wife's netbook, she works and just uses it for email. Ii sit it on the piano and plug in the hard drive and run a jack from the headphone connection to a Roland 60 Cube Amp. Never had a problem with the Acer and XP home, however I am unhappy with Microsoft for they made the Acer reboot this morning, and you don't get a choice. That just drives me nuts. I'm sure their intentions are good but.....

I have a newer Vaio in my study, and it runs Ubuntu. I use it the most, and hope that the Mac port of Band in a Box can be compiled for Linux...that would be awesome.


John Conley
Musica est vita