4 Apr
2007
4 Apr
'07
2:59 p.m.
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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:
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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