Hallo, Ken Restivo hat gesagt: // Ken Restivo wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:59:26AM +0100, julien lociuro wrote: > > Here some questions that arise after some investigation. > > > > 1) It is recommended to have 2 separate hard drives. One for os/programs and > > one for audio files. > > Is it though necessary to have the first one, say the internal one at > > 7200rpm, if the second one (external, USB-2) used for audio files is 7200? > > Problem is that most of laptops have 5400rpm for their internal drive. > I've got only one drive and no problem. It's a 7200RPM drive-- not > supported by my laptop BIOS. If you're going to be streaming > recording or playing 48 tracks simultaneously, you might need > separate drives. But actually then I wouldn't connect one drive over USB. IMO if you really need two drives and record that many tracks, you need a small real computer like a Mini-ITX, but not a laptop. > If you won't be gaming, don't worry about it. I picked my laptop > specifically because it has the INTEL video chipset-- probably the > worst-performing crap out there, but at the time it was the only one > open and free and supported in Linux with Free Software drivers, and > that is very important to me. My computer isn't just my instrument > and studio and communications device, and life, really, but it is > also a political statement for me. I haven't yet seen an audio app > that requires proprietary 3D video acceleration, for example, so I > wasn't missing much. I second that. If you're on the lookout for a pure audio laptop, but one with an Intel gfx card. (I even do 3D with Pd/Gem on it, but I only need to display some lines, cubes and spheres for my work.) > One very nice thing about Macs in general is that they're little > more than trendy-looking hardware copy-protection dongles for OSX, > so they retain their value very, very well. Wonderful! If I had signature quotes in my mails, this would go into it!! ;) Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
