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 I upgraded my Dell XPS M1210 laptop to a 7200RPM drive and resolved my xruns problems. You can get them (the laptop) for under $500 on eBay. They have the Ricoh firewire chipset which used to be troublesome for the FFADO firewire driver. However, under Fedora/CCRMA I've had zero problems. YMMV. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
