[linux-audio-user] To MacBook or not to MacBook, that's the question

[Lee Revell]

On 3/17/07, Marc-Olivier Barre <mobarre at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/17/07, Paul Winkler <pw_lists at slinkp.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:14:22AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > Keep in mind they all use the dreaded HDA intel for onboard audio...
> >
> > I'm curious: what's so awful about them?
> >
> > (finding it hard to imagine anything worse than the NeoMagic chip on
> > my first Dell laptop...)
> >
>
> Background noise I would say... and some huge issues with interrupt
> handling (but that's any cards on any laptops...) which makes is very
> hard not to have xruns.

That raises an interesting point - I wonder if Dell would consider
"noisy audio" a fatal hardware issue to the same extent that Apple
would.

Lee