20 Mar
2007
20 Mar
'07
4:33 a.m.
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:31:25AM +0100, Malte Steiner wrote:
Arnold Krille wrote:
Thanks!
I've been spending the last few hours researching this.... it's depressing how
time-consuming this is.... I hate shopping...
Anyway, I found this:
http://www.thenerds.net/index.php?page=productpage&affid=2&pn=90NG6…
That looks like a brand-new laptop for US$461, which is a damned good price for me, being
impoverished and considering I can only do this by selling my Mac Mini, for which I could
probably fetch maybe $400-$500.
Am I correct in assuming that this ASUS has no CPU, just a socket that'll accommodate
a Yonah?
If so, life with my Mac Mini has indicated to me that a socket ("Socket M"?)
that accomodates a Yonah can also accomodate a Merom-- i.e. a Core 2 Duo. Is this true for
the ASUS too?
New Core 2 Duo CPUs-- just the CPU!-- in 2.33Ghz clock speed are around US$700, yikes! But
still, a laptop with socketed CPU upgrade capability seems like just exactly the right
thing for Linux Audio, provided Intel will continue develping new CPUs using this socket.
i.e. when I start getting Xruns, I can just upgrade my CPU.
How easy is it to pry open an ASUS and "do stuff" to it? Compared to, say,
VAIO's and ThinkPads-- both of which I've disassembled and reassembled many
times--, and other models like Gateways and Micron's which I've also taken to
bits.
So far from my limited experience, I'd have to say it's hard to beat the ThinkPads
for servicability-- seems like they were designed for the user to take apart and put back
together again. If ASUS's are similar, they seem to be much less expensive than
ThinkPads, and so I'm very interested.
- -ken
2007/3/19, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org>rg>:
I second Arnolds statement, I got
also an Asus A6000 and at least I
would say it sucks less. I got a single core Turion 64 with Nvidia
graphics and I run 64Studio with the propritary Nvidia drivers on it
which I need for my art. Works fine and got low latency out of the box
but Linux should be started with ACPI set to off.
PD is a bit of a pain in 64bit as Arnold said but so far I use the stock
pd and compiled only the externals I missed and needed. Soon I will try
to compile a whole pd from cvs, maybe its better. Some statements of
some pd users about 64 bit are a bit strange indeed.
I compiled csound 5 and it worked well after I learned how to start it
with a good priority so it didnt get interrupted when running in
realtime. Ardour works great and also video applications like Xjadeo and
Cinelerra which certainly benifits from 64bit.
There is some electrical bleeding on the audio output which is also on
external cards like RME Hammerfall Multiface. Balanced cables or playing
from battery helps.
OK, <exasperated sigh>, I have to ask this:
Are there any laptops out there WHICH DO NOT SUCK??!
Yes, I have an ASUS A6000 which is rather great! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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