12 Sep
2009
12 Sep
'09
1:19 p.m.
laurence alexander wrote:
I use Ubunutu Studio for audio - Rosegarden, Hydrogen,
AMSynth, Alsamodular synth,
audacity, time machine, zynaddsynth etc - on an 8 year old laptop. I am having
overheating problems and want to upgrade to a new machine. Any advice for minimum
specs to be looking outfor. E.g. is a 7200rpm hard drive necessary? Should I go for
dual core? Trying to spend around £300. Thanks
I upgraded my Dell XPS M1210 laptop to a 7200RPM drive and resolved my xruns problems.
You can get them (the laptop) for under $500 on eBay. They have the Ricoh firewire
chipset which used to be troublesome for the FFADO firewire driver. However, under
Fedora/CCRMA I've had zero problems. YMMV.
-Scott