> Huh? I've never had any of these issues, afaik only some old > PIV-models were affected by some demormalization problems, but to my > knowledge it has been sorted out. Yeah, denormals.I own a moderately old (2003) Dell notebook that sports a "Pentium 4 mobile" (don't know how that's wired) and ran into the issue doing some mixing and mastering in ardour. A lot of plugins were effected, even some of Steve's. > With AMD you may get different issues, like non-working W-LAN, worse > battery life, and you may have a hard time finding good open source > graphics drivers. You're right, I probably shouldn't have recommended AMD without having tried it first. But I do have a feeling I'll try it next. Carlo