-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 05:09:51PM +0200, Lars Luthman wrote: > I'm thinking about getting a laptop, and of course I want one that I can > run jackd and friends on with reasonable performance. I really don't > know much about hardware in general and laptops in particular, so I was > wondering if anyone had any advice. This is what I'm looking for: > > * Mainboard / sound / CPU etc working well with recent RT-patched > kernels. > > * S/PDIF out, at least 16 bits, 48kHz, stereo. Inputs are not > important, ADC/DAC quality is not important. > > * DVD+-RW burner. > > * jackd running without xruns with ~10ms latency (when using S/PDIF > out at 48kHz). > > * Room for plenty of RAM (at least 2 GB). > > * Not too expensive ( < 1000???). > > Any suggestions? > > Don't get the one I have (ASUS Z96F). It's a nice machine, easily-expandable, and it was a great price, but the interrupt routing really sucks for audio: way too many shared interrupts. Most of the Intel Core 2 Duo "Napa" based motherboards (i.e. Mac Mini) seem to have similar interrupt-sharing limitations. They also have the miserable hda-intel sound chip. If I had to buy a laptop again, I'd bring a Linux livecd into a computer shop or discount store, and walk around trying every single goddamned machine there, doing "cat /proc/interrupts" and "lspci" on every one, and buy the one that doesn't have brain-dead shared interrupts or unsupported (Ricoh) chips. I wish there were an online database of /proc/interrupts, lspci, and dmiinfo output for all laptops. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGRfe9e8HF+6xeOIcRAo0mAJ4j3wBwdx6jFSen/0ZkfPPe2oXyygCgjSfw H833AYcAmMgacB7jhXO+Pmo= =eou5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
