I noticed no one mentioned this:
Emu 1616 Laptop Audio Interface
E-MU's new 1616 Laptop Digital Audio System
brings the same powerful DSP effects, zero-latency monitoring and pristine
24-bit/192kHz A/D and D/A converters of E-MU's best selling PCI Digital
Audio Systems to your laptop. The E-MU CardBus card can be used standalone
for its DSP power and studio-quality headphone amp/line output, or plugged
into the MicroDock for a total of 16 inputs and 16 outputs plus two sets
of MIDI I/O. E-MU's Laptop Digital Audio Systems ship with ASIO2 and stereo
WDM drivers for Windows XP and 2000, plus the new E-MU Production Tools
Software Bundle that includes E-MU's Proteus X LE, plus software by Cakewalk,
Steinberg, Ableton, IK Multimedia, and many more - everything you need to
create, record, edit, master and burn your music.
It looks promising, better than USB, as
it plugs into the PCI card.
Kris
I bought the EMU1616M as soon as it came out. Use it for recording sessions,
gigs, at home in the studio, everywhere. It is a beauty. Can't say a single
bad thing about it.