Re: Thinking About Laptop Computers (yet) Again


Robert Morein wrote:
no parallel port (that's all too common now)
That's available as a USB dongle.

You mean a USB-parallel adapter? Well, it's another thing to have to
hook up, and I'm not sure if the parallel port dongle that I have for
Sequoia will work through such and adapter.

I use a Tascam FW-1082 to record 8/48 onto a Compal CL-50 1.3gHz Centrino
with a 4200 80 gb drive. There are no glitches.

When I was doing some experiments to see what my laptop is capable of,
I found that I could record 8 tracks at 16/44 for an hour glitch-free
on my Dell (4200 RPM drive) but that was the limit. Have you tried
pushing yours beyond 8 tracks to see where it starts to stumble?

One advantage of a 4200 rpm drive is complete silence.

Yes, mine is mighty quiet, but there are two internal fans and one
sounds like a small vacuum cleaner when it starts up. Always has. I
think that's the CPU fan. The other one is a general exhaust fan that
runs all the time and it's pretty quiet. I've had a parts dealer tell
me that the 7200 RPM laptop drives that he had last time I asked were
pretty noisy, but that the 5200 RPM drives were very quiet. I use 7200
RPM Maxtors (mostly) in my Mackie hard disk recorder and each newer one
I buy is quieter than the last one I bought. They're amazing. I'd think
that laptop drives would at least have some of that technology.

My laptop
fan never turns on when the CPU speed is in dynamic switching mode.

I thiink I"d be afriad of using that mode, but in any case, my laptop
doesn't give me a choice, so I've never experimented. It does blow some
pretty hot air out so I wouldn't want to chance it without a CPU fan.
But then it's a Pentium 4, not the Mobile version, and I know they've
come a long way to reducing the power requirements of the CPU since
then, with the resulting saving in heat.

1440x1050 display uses the 855PM chipset. This means that the CPU doesn't
have to drive the display, as is the case with the 855GM and 955GM chipsets.

You've lost me there. And even if you hadn't, those numbers are close
enough to being the same that I'd probaly never notice what was what if
I could find it on a spec sheet. That's much higher resolution than
I've seen on any of the laptops that I've seen on the shelf - the
graphics card is usually capable of greater resolution than the screen,
but the screen resolution is around 1280x800 max.

Instead of a PDA, I have an Asus S5NE subnotebook with a 1 gHz ULV Centrino
CPU. On the large end of this class, it has a full size keyboard, a 12.1",
1024x768 display, and weighs 2.8 lbs in a carbon fiber case with a 3 cell
battery.

Now that's kind of neat. Of course I couldn't find it on the Asus web
site.

You have stated that you wish to buy at a brick-and-mortar store. You give
up a lot to do so.

But I give up $100 or so a shot if I buy sight-unseen and don't like
it. You certainly buy some interesting stuff. Maybe I need a personal
shopper. <g>

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