On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 02:04:40PM -0500, carmen wrote: > On Sat Mar 10, 2007 at 01:47:13PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:56:30PM -0500, carmen wrote: > > > On Fri Mar 09, 2007 at 07:43:00PM -1000, david wrote: > > > > ljc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > everything is made by Compal, Quanta, and ASUS. can you really > > > discriminate by western "brand" ? > > > > I bought an ASUS "whitebook" last year. It felt good not to pay for > > an OS I wasn't going to use. But, now I wonder if it was such a good > > idea. I can't seem to find an extra battery to buy anywhere. Is > > this a general > im still glad i went with the whitebook though. it was about half the > price of a macbook pro with the same specs, and still a nice metal > case... plus it has a row of pageup/down/home/end keys on the right > edge i cant imagine going without for any extended > irssi/firefox/manpage paging.. Yes, price/performance was one of my considerations, too. And I also have the row of navigation keys which are indeed good to have. Another question ... I have my laptop running fairly well now with 2.6.20.1 patched with patch-2.6.20-rt8 and Rui's rtirq script. jack, jack_alsamidi, patchage, specimen, seq24 work fine along with my usb midi keyboard. One issue though, I'm getting a nasty zipper noise in one monitor connected to the edirol ua-25 whenever any keyboard, trackpad, disk or video activity happens. If I unplug from the power supply and run on battery the noise goes away. Everything (laptop and 2 active monitors) are on the same power strip. ua-25 and remote25 are usb powered. I recall someone else reporting something similar recently. Is there anything I can try to do to get rid of the noise when plugged into power? -Eric Rz.
