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good luck man! i built a dual core 2.6 w/ 4 gig ram 128 mb video- TI instrument firewire card -200gig HD - for $500- newegg and ebay whatever route you go, definitly get a TI firewire card (if u use firewire), it makes all the difference in the world- please understand that micro atx is a form factor for CPU cases and has nothign to do with the touch screen- the best touchscreen company is elo (elotouch.com)- i believe they make a product that you can install over any monitor to convert it to touch, but i bought an open frame model that includes the lcd monitor and the touchscreen off ebay- goodluck fro > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:40:07 -0700 > Subject: Re: notebook non-recommendation for audio applications > From: zerocrossing@gmail.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > > I think I'm about to ditch the laptop as well. The older I get the > less I care about leaving the house for gigs and frankly at this point > who am I kidding? The laptop I bought for gigging or occasional > visits to friends for a jam has left my home a total zero times. > > Now my general use/surfing laptop is DEAD. I'm thinking that rather > than replace it the money would be better spent on replacing my music > laptop with a desktop and relegating the old music laptop for general > use. > > I'm just thinking of getting the best HP desktop I can afford (which > is probably only around $600) as a bunch of my friends basically said, > "10 years ago build saved you money and hassle. Now it just buys you > pain." This is a guy who's a high level IT guy too. > > But your touchscreen micro axt... that sounds juicy. Can you tell > more about it? I can't seem to find much info on DYI touch screens > and from what I can tell getting the HP with it built in doubles the > price. > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:14 AM, FRO DIDDLY<parispro00@hotmail.com> wrote: > > not sure how late i am, but in concerns to the acer laptops, i called about > > 6 months ago and they did not use TI chipsets in any computers anymore- > > > > in my adventure to find a perfect laptop, i bought 2 dells and returned them > > both - for what its worth the business class model performed much better > > than the consumer lvl garbage... > > > > i ended up wth a macbook pro running bootcamp.... which worked well since > > mobius is a very resource friendly program- > > but from my experience, running windows progrms in bootcamp is noticably > > slower than an equivenlent machine running windows os > > > > i now ditched the mac and built a micro atx PC with a touchscreen monitor - > > =D....farewell laptop loopers! ;o) > > > > fro > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:10:35 +0100 > >> From: akbutler@tiscali.co.uk > >> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > >> Subject: Re: notebook non-recommendation for audio applications > >> > >> The info appears to be in the Device Manager, > >> on XP at least. > >> > >> > >> Mark Sottilaro wrote: > >> > But what if the manufacturer doesn't state what one they use? > >> > Confusing... why can't we all just get along? ;) > >> > > >> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Rainer > >> > Straschill<moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> >>> Has anyone had any experience with the newer Acer laptops > >> >> A friend of mine (not audio-conscious, but IT professional and > >> >> reseller) has them in his shortlist together with Samsung. > >> >> > >> >>> and I keep hearing that not all Firewire chipsets do well with audio. > >> >> It's relatively simple. There are two mass-produced IEEE1394 chipsets > >> >> - by TI and Ricoh respectivle. The TI is good, the Ricoh is not. > >> >> > >> >> Rainer > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > ________________________________ > > Insert movie times and more without leaving HotmailŪ. See how. > Insert movie times and more without leaving HotmailŪ. See how. |