[LAU] PATA or SATA? Yonah or Merom?

[Ken Restivo]

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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:56:20PM +0900, Joel Roth wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:55:51PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
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> > I'm a hardware idiot. I have the worst luck buying hardware: I always buy the wrong thing and end up getting screwed. Plus I don't have a lot of money, so when I get screwed, it's devastating.
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> > So that's why I avoid buying hardware. But still, I need a laptop, and so here I am shopping and probably about to make some stupid and unrecoverable mistake that will cost me everything.
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> Perhaps there are guys here who can recommend a specific
> model for doing sound. If I didn't want to make a mistake I
> would try to get a firm recommendation and if that were
> lacking, the output of
> 
> cat /proc/interrupts; lspci; dmesg; etc.
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> from a linux live CD. At least you could know the hardware
> you have and the interrupts configuration. 
> 
> A good utility would be a test script to measure data
> throughput and latency. There must be such tools
> around.
> 

Thanks. OK, I'm buying the PATA unit.  Thanks to everyone who helped me with the SATA/PATA background, and who recommended ASUS laptops in a previous thread. It's been very helpful.

Reading my last post seems like I was getting a lot more emotionally overwrought about something as dry as a hardware purchase. But I'm feeling a lot more confident now... hopefully this will turn out well. Thanks again.

- -ken
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