laurence alexander wrote: > I use Ubunutu Studio for audio - Rosegarden, Hydrogen, AMSynth, Alsamodular synth, audacity, time machine, zynaddsynth etc - on an 8 year old laptop. I am having overheating problems and want to upgrade to a new machine. Any advice for minimum specs to be looking outfor. E.g. is a 7200rpm hard drive necessary? Should I go for dual core? Trying to spend around £300. Thanks > > Interesting that you're having problems with overheating. Is ACPI enabled on your system ? Which Ubuntu are you using ? IIRC there's much better temperature control in recent releases. Alas, it screws up other things on my system, so I disabled it and have to avoid using power-hungry apps for very long. :( Also, what CPU is in your laptop ? Best, dp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
