31 Aug
2011
31 Aug
'11
9:49 a.m.
On Wednesday 31 August 2011 09:08:54 david wrote:
Atte André Jensen wrote:
++ on the thinkpads.
There are also Dells sold with linux onboard and the Fujitsu-Siemens of my
mother also looks stable and runs perfectly with linux.
There are less and less laptops with firewire builtin, you should look for a
pcmcia/pccard slot on your next laptop and get a firewire-card for that
(10-20€).
Options (I can think of):
I saw a secondhand ThinkPad X61s (dual-core 1.6Ghz, 3Gb ram, 12"
display) from a well known online shop I trust and used many times
(bought my current laptop there). There's 6 months warrenty, and my
general impression with ThinkPads is that they have good build quality,
it's the only laptop I would consider buying used. It has firewire so...
I
hear very good things about ThinkPads. They seem to be quite durable
and perform well. You should check to see if its Firewire chipset has
Linux support, though. > Go the netbook route. I'm at a loss here, all
these new processors, both
> the i-series and the atom (N-series), I have no idea how well they
> perform. I tried a few from friends, and they seem fast enough. Anyone
> here making music on a netbook? This would most certainly mean I would
> have to get a usb soundcard, hmmm :-(
There are netbooks that are capable of audio (not a full-fledged 24 track
ardour session but still). The atoms also did the same transition as desktop-
cpus from single core to single-core-with-hyper-threading to dual-core which
the newest generations is (or is it not yet released?).
I've never seen a netbook with Firewire, though, I
kind of doubt you're
going to find any.
People want low energy and long battery-lifetime. And still they want fast
cpu, large memory, large and fast disks and all the juice from sata, usb(1|2|
3), dvi, hdmi, sd-cards, wifi-n, bluetooth and wwan. Asking for an additional
firewire is a but to much for the little boards and machines. And it drives up
production costs for a feature that is not as wide-spread (sadly). Not to
mention that bus-power for your firewire will drain the battery...
Going for a real notebook instead of a netbook will give you only a bit lower
battery but a bigger screen and firewire (directly or indirectly).
Have fun,
Arnold