Re: [LAU] which laptop?

----Original Message-----
>From: Lars Luthman <lars.luthman@email-addr-hidden>
>Sent: May 27, 2008 3:54 PM
>To: linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
>Subject: Re: [LAU] which laptop?
>
>On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 21:36 +0200, Peter O'Doherty wrote:
>> I'm fairly new to linux (I mostly use Mac OS X) and would mainly use
>> the laptop for live audio work (running primarily PD and
>> SuperCollider).
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with the 1525? Any advice?
>
>It's Intel based, which probably means Intel HDA for audio, which
>typically means poor DAC and unpredictable realtime performance. You'll
>probably want to get an external soundcard of some kind.
>
>
>--ll
I have an Asus with hda-intel sound and run Ubuntu Studio and Dragon NaturallySpeaking using Wine. Audio within the range of the human voice needs to be crystal-clear.
It's not.
In alsa-mixer I have to nudge mic-boost 2/3 of the way up to get moderately successful results.
When I try to listen to Youtube, the sound is so faint as to be unhearable.
The best laptop soundcard that I know of is the Indigo IO PCMCIA, but my computer has one of those newfangled card slots, and so I had to go with a Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi. But wait! The X-Fi isn't supported yet by alsa, although it will be soon. (The beta drivers so far haven't worked for me.)
There are bug reports all over Ubuntu about how poorly hda-intel works.
They won't be fixed until Intrepid, but maybe you won't buy your computer until then...
Does anyone have any sympathy for me?
S

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Received on Wed May 28 00:15:09 2008