Hi @ all, I have sympathy for a new notebook with AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core cpu. It would open some new possibilities, like virtualization (pacifica, xen etc.), pure AMD64 Debian arch, other 32-bit OS' and - and that is the question - good realtime-audio performance? Do the realtime patches of Ingo Molnar work with SMP-Kernels for example? And the LSM-modules? Or is the realtime-preemption in Linux just optimized for single cpu systems? My main interest would be to use the laptop sometimes as "Linux-sound-module" triggered by an external midi-keyboard. Profit virtual-instruments (virtual-synths, VSTis) much from having two CPUs and therefore enhanced multithreading? Or is it contra-productive eventually? If using a SMP-Kernel would produce hassles - would it be a safe workaround to compile a kernel *without* SMP support and then driving one Turion core would be sufficient? Please forgive these many questions, but I just won't trust the marketing blindly for the benefits of dual-cores without asking some experienced users. Thanks for your time Oliver P.S. What about the laptop-fan? Can I expect, that it starts and stops frequently when the Turion computes "sound"? (that would be annoying)
