2 Jan
2008
2 Jan
'08
4:37 p.m.
Hallo,
Ken Restivo hat gesagt: // Ken Restivo wrote:
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:59:26AM +0100, julien
lociuro wrote:
> Here some questions that arise after some investigation.
>
> 1) It is recommended to have 2 separate hard drives. One for os/programs and
> one for audio files.
> Is it though necessary to have the first one, say the internal one at
> 7200rpm, if the second one (external, USB-2) used for audio files is 7200?
> Problem is that most of laptops have 5400rpm for their internal drive.
I've got only one drive and no problem. It's a
7200RPM drive-- not
supported by my laptop BIOS. If you're going to be streaming
recording or playing 48 tracks simultaneously, you might need
separate drives.
But actually then I wouldn't connect one drive over USB. IMO if you
really need two drives and record that many tracks, you need a small
real computer like a Mini-ITX, but not a laptop.
If you won't be gaming, don't worry about it.
I picked my laptop
specifically because it has the INTEL video chipset-- probably the
worst-performing crap out there, but at the time it was the only one
open and free and supported in Linux with Free Software drivers, and
that is very important to me. My computer isn't just my instrument
and studio and communications device, and life, really, but it is
also a political statement for me. I haven't yet seen an audio app
that requires proprietary 3D video acceleration, for example, so I
wasn't missing much.
I second that. If you're on the lookout for a pure audio laptop, but
one with an Intel gfx card. (I even do 3D with Pd/Gem on it, but I
only need to display some lines, cubes and spheres for my work.)
One very nice thing about Macs in general is that
they're little
more than trendy-looking hardware copy-protection dongles for OSX,
so they retain their value very, very well.
Wonderful! If I had signature quotes in my mails, this would go into
it!! ;)
Ciao
--
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__