On Wednesday 31 August 2011 09:08:54 david wrote: > Atte André Jensen wrote: > > Options (I can think of): > > I saw a secondhand ThinkPad X61s (dual-core 1.6Ghz, 3Gb ram, 12" > > display) from a well known online shop I trust and used many times > > (bought my current laptop there). There's 6 months warrenty, and my > > general impression with ThinkPads is that they have good build quality, > > it's the only laptop I would consider buying used. It has firewire so... > I hear very good things about ThinkPads. They seem to be quite durable > and perform well. You should check to see if its Firewire chipset has > Linux support, though. ++ on the thinkpads. There are also Dells sold with linux onboard and the Fujitsu-Siemens of my mother also looks stable and runs perfectly with linux. There are less and less laptops with firewire builtin, you should look for a pcmcia/pccard slot on your next laptop and get a firewire-card for that (10-20€). > > Go the netbook route. I'm at a loss here, all these new processors, both > > the i-series and the atom (N-series), I have no idea how well they > > perform. I tried a few from friends, and they seem fast enough. Anyone > > here making music on a netbook? This would most certainly mean I would > > have to get a usb soundcard, hmmm :-( There are netbooks that are capable of audio (not a full-fledged 24 track ardour session but still). The atoms also did the same transition as desktop- cpus from single core to single-core-with-hyper-threading to dual-core which the newest generations is (or is it not yet released?). > I've never seen a netbook with Firewire, though, I kind of doubt you're > going to find any. People want low energy and long battery-lifetime. And still they want fast cpu, large memory, large and fast disks and all the juice from sata, usb(1|2| 3), dvi, hdmi, sd-cards, wifi-n, bluetooth and wwan. Asking for an additional firewire is a but to much for the little boards and machines. And it drives up production costs for a feature that is not as wide-spread (sadly). Not to mention that bus-power for your firewire will drain the battery... Going for a real notebook instead of a netbook will give you only a bit lower battery but a bigger screen and firewire (directly or indirectly). Have fun, Arnold
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