Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Laptop, now means USB is the only expansion game in town... The > manufactures have worked hard to make it so. Even many desktops are > hard to expand... and besides that, many fewer people (percentage > wise) are willing to take two screws out of the cover to actually > change something inside. And most off-the-shelf PC's these days don't have many slots. You only get a lot of them if you're building from the motherboard up. > For less than $500 one can have the computer > and USB mic and make music. Manufactures do not want to make two kinds > of audio boxes if they can make one... the USB box works > everywhere. Raise latency a bit and it just works (even in > windows). Raise the latency a bit because USB requires it, because we > don't want complaints from the owner of the "super computer" buyer who > has a very fast machine with 32 cores and 64GB ram and poor > latency. So really, the USB IF fits in with everything else pretty > good. (It is the best compromise for the market) I'm just surprised that no one is complaining, given what a bad rep USB had just a few years ago. > Has anyone noticed that mother boards still have a printer and two (or > four) serial headers? Yes, though I'm not sure many people still remember what they were used for. -- - Brent Busby + =============================================== + "With the rise of social networking -- Keycorner -- + sites, computers are making people -- Recording -- + easier to use every day." ----------------+ =============================================== _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
