[linux-audio-user] Linux for live performance

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:31 +0000, carmen wrote:
> > I agree with Lee. My experience is that you cannot tell by a list of
> > what's in the machine. You have to use it to find out.
> 
> or build it. assembling your laptop is a the only way to not pay Microsoft for a copy of XP, and allows the opportunity to put in components you know there are open/free/good/working drivers for. check out the barebones notebooks from ASUS and MSI..
> 

Even if you build it you have no idea if it will be usable for low
latency until you try it.  There's no way to know ahead of time that a
machine does not have the ACPI/SMM bug for example.

Lee