[LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:14:14 +0200
Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:

> On Thursday 30 July 2009 09:50:01 hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> > So if you need a power source anyway there's not much reason to use
> > FW besides maybe being a little bit more flexible than with
> > expresscard.
> 
> Ever tried to connect several expresscard sounddevices at once?
> 
> With firewire it is _really_ easy: just daisy-chain them together.
> They are then even able to sample-sync all by the firewire-clock.
> (All other technologies have to use external sync!) I would say this
> counts as _a lot_ more flexible.

Ok, I forgot about that possibility. With flexibility I meant that
normal PCs might have a FW port whereas they most likely don't have
Expresscard.

> And its really not "look out for ricoh-chipsets" but "look out for
> the broken ricoh-chipsets". There are ricohs that work extremely
> well. (I know from my own expirience.)
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Arnold

The question here is: Which ones are the broken ones and which ones the
good ones?
I wouldn't know where to look for that info, do you?

Thanks,
Philipp