-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:56:20PM +0900, Joel Roth wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:55:51PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I'm a hardware idiot. I have the worst luck buying hardware: I always buy the wrong thing and end up getting screwed. Plus I don't have a lot of money, so when I get screwed, it's devastating. > > > > So that's why I avoid buying hardware. But still, I need a laptop, and so here I am shopping and probably about to make some stupid and unrecoverable mistake that will cost me everything. > > Perhaps there are guys here who can recommend a specific > model for doing sound. If I didn't want to make a mistake I > would try to get a firm recommendation and if that were > lacking, the output of > > cat /proc/interrupts; lspci; dmesg; etc. > > from a linux live CD. At least you could know the hardware > you have and the interrupts configuration. > > A good utility would be a test script to measure data > throughput and latency. There must be such tools > around. > Thanks. OK, I'm buying the PATA unit. Thanks to everyone who helped me with the SATA/PATA background, and who recommended ASUS laptops in a previous thread. It's been very helpful. Reading my last post seems like I was getting a lot more emotionally overwrought about something as dry as a hardware purchase. But I'm feeling a lot more confident now... hopefully this will turn out well. Thanks again. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGE9lje8HF+6xeOIcRAt3sAKDYzk5oM5zJe8B6NoPnWuPbQLMQwwCg192w swwsiPAz26g4Ly2DjFy03pY= =eo9T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
