laurence alexander wrote:
> I use Ubunutu Studio for audio - Rosegarden, Hydrogen, AMSynth, Alsamodular synth,
> audacity, time machine, zynaddsynth etc - on an 8 year old laptop. I am having
> overheating problems and want to upgrade to a new machine. Any advice for minimum
> specs to be looking outfor. E.g. is a 7200rpm hard drive necessary? Should I go for
> dual core? Trying to spend around £300. Thanks
I upgraded my Dell XPS M1210 laptop to a 7200RPM drive and resolved my xruns problems.
You can get them (the laptop) for under $500 on eBay. They have the Ricoh firewire
chipset which used to be troublesome for the FFADO firewire driver. However, under
Fedora/CCRMA I've had zero problems. YMMV.
-Scott
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