Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > hollunder@xxxxxx wrote: > >> It feels like my several year old PC will crap out soon for one reason >> or another, so I need a replacement, better sooner than later. >> This time it should be a laptop and I heard that formerly IBM and now >> Lenovo thinkpads are of good build quality, even if they only come >> with intel CPUs and cost an arm and a leg. >> >> So, do you have any experience with those for audio work? >> I'd be most interested in the T and R series and more recent models. >> Also helpful would be some data that's impossible to find on websites: >> - What chipsets are built in? >> - do the usb buses and the like share interrupts with something nasty >> like graphics? >> > > the x61s, while otherwise a very nice notebook, shares an interrupt > between the 1394 and sata controller, which is kind of nasty when you > want to do hd recording over a ffado device. i ended up adding a cardbus > adaptor to obtain decent latencies. > I have one of these (in for repair at the moment), and was wondering why I couldn't get decent jack latencies with the firewire card I have (an m-audio firewire solo). Is there no way to reconfigure the interrupts in software? If not, would it be worth using my usb hard disk as a recording medium? What cardbus adapter were you using, and how hard was it to make it work with linux? andy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
