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I asked a similar question of a friend, and he gave me his old laptop. It is a WIN 98 machine , quite clunky, but it works great as a trigger for my DGX, connected by USB. It runs all my favorite MIDI sequencers, Band in a Box, OMB and so forth. I couldn't be happier.

I don't think this machine would do a good job with audio files or softsynths. If you need these capabilities it will get expensive fast.

If I needed to play MP3s and Background audio I would do it with a separate Walkman-type player.

Douglas Wolfe

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