heres an update- i bought a macbook pro 2.3 dual core w 2GB ram running bootcamp XP SP3 and Mobius at 256 samples with almost no clicks- all in all...... i would suggest to anyone looking to go into laptop looping to purchase a MAC.... after 4 dell computers.....simply buying a MAC solves the following issues- 1) no ground noise when plugged into AC 2) low fan noise0 3) TI firewire chipset (the most important thing ever =D ) 4) run XP or OSX just wanted to pass on what i learned fro > From: jeff.larson@sailpoint.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:54:19 -0600 > Subject: RE: choosing a laptop > > > > > Does the express card also use a non-TI chipset? > > > > from what ive read,no it doesnt- > > Then this does suggest a chipset problem. > > > even if the express Firewire card has TI chipset.......... > > the chipset for the express slot READER is not TI.... > > so it makes no difference.... > > I don't think that's true. I've heard about FW chipset > incompatibility problems but never about PCI-express SLOT > problems. They are totally different. You can have IRQ > conflicts with PCI-express but this is unrelated to the > circuitry. > > There seems to be mountains of evidence that Dells with the Ricoh > chipset suck, but lots of people use PCI-express interfaces with Dells > successfully. > > Jeff > Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. See how it works. |