4 Apr
2007
4 Apr
'07
4:34 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:55:51PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
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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.
Regards,
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Joel Roth