Am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2008 schrieb Peter O'Doherty: > > -It's Intel based, which probably means Intel HDA for audio, which > >> typically means poor DAC and unpredictable realtime performance. > >> You'll > >> probably want to get an external soundcard of some kind. > Am I a typical spoiled Mac user then who assumes that the laptop > comes with a soundcard and it's simply a matter of plugging speakers > into the headphone slot? It seems I'm too naive. Did you ever listen to the quality coming out of laptop-soundcards? Even if the maker is using good parts (which would be a very rare case), the fact that its builtin and on the same board as everything else accounts for bad audio-quality. There is just no way to get the shielding right inside of a notebook. Unless you use a shielded card in the pcmcia/pccard-slot. While it might sound good with (cheap) headphones, its definitely a no-go when connected to big power systems. Apart from the fact that symmetric connections are much easier for disconnecting the earth... Have fun, Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your administrator to do so...
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