New subject: which laptop?

27 May 2008

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 From: Ernie Dulanowsky &lt;ernst(a)pulsewidth.ca&gt;
Sent: May 27, 2008 6:16 PM
To: Susan Cragin &lt;susancragin(a)earthlink.net&gt;
Cc: Linux Audio Users &lt;linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org&gt;
Subject: Re: [LAU] which laptop?

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Susan Cragin &lt;susancragin(a)earthlink.net&gt; wrote:
  ----Original Message-----
 From: Lars Luthman &lt;lars.luthman(a)gmail.com&gt;
Sent: May 27, 2008 3:54 PM
To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] which laptop?

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 21:36 +0200, Peter O'Doherty wrote:
  I'm fairly new to linux (I mostly use Mac OS
X) and would mainly use
 the laptop for live audio work (running primarily PD and
 SuperCollider).

 Does anyone have any experience with the 1525? Any advice? 
It's Intel based, which probably means Intel HDA for audio, which
typically means poor DAC and unpredictable realtime performance. You'll
probably want to get an external soundcard of some kind.

--ll  I have an Asus with hda-intel sound and run Ubuntu Studio and Dragon
NaturallySpeaking using Wine. Audio within the range of the human voice needs to be
crystal-clear.
 It's not.
 In alsa-mixer I have to nudge mic-boost 2/3 of the way up to get moderately successful
results.
 When I try to listen to Youtube, the sound is so faint as to be unhearable.
 The best laptop soundcard that I know of is the Indigo IO PCMCIA, but my computer has one
of those newfangled card slots, and so I had to go with a Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi. But
wait! The X-Fi isn't supported yet by alsa, although it will be soon. (The beta
drivers so far haven't worked for me.)
 There are bug reports all over Ubuntu about how poorly hda-intel works.
 They won't be fixed until Intrepid, but maybe you won't buy your computer until
then...
 Does anyone have any sympathy for me?
 S

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I do indeed have sympathy for the fact that you can't use your Indigo
IO anymore. I'm also looking a new laptop, and it seems that there are
very few, if any, laptops that still have Carbus slots. Most seem to
have some flavour of ExpressCard.

Of course there are many USB sound devices to investigate....

cheers,
ernie

-- 
"Both Rob and I see sound as shapes.
I only have to do this (makes a fist)
and he knows what sound I mean". - Autechre
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Ernie Dulanowsky
www.pulsewidth.ca 
Oh, I forgot. USB sound still doesn't work.