4 Sep
2006
4 Sep
'06
12:36 p.m.
Huh? I've never had any of these issues, afaik
only some old
PIV-models were affected by some demormalization problems, but to my
knowledge it has been sorted out.
Yeah, denormals.I own a moderately old (2003) Dell notebook that sports
a "Pentium 4 mobile" (don't know how that's wired) and ran into the
issue doing some mixing and mastering in ardour. A lot of plugins were
effected, even some of Steve's.
With AMD you may get different issues, like
non-working W-LAN, worse
battery life, and you may have a hard time finding good open source
graphics drivers.
You're right, I probably shouldn't have recommended AMD without having
tried it first. But I do have a feeling I'll try it next.
Carlo