On 3/17/07, Marc-Olivier Barre <mobarre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3/17/07, Paul Winkler <pw_lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:14:22AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > Keep in mind they all use the dreaded HDA intel for onboard audio... > > I'm curious: what's so awful about them? > > (finding it hard to imagine anything worse than the NeoMagic chip on > my first Dell laptop...) > Background noise I would say... and some huge issues with interrupt handling (but that's any cards on any laptops...) which makes is very hard not to have xruns.
That raises an interesting point - I wonder if Dell would consider "noisy audio" a fatal hardware issue to the same extent that Apple would. Lee
