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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:56:20PM +0900, Joel Roth wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:55:51PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:

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> > I'm a hardware idiot. I have the worst luck buying hardware: I always buy the wrong thing and end up getting screwed. Plus I don't have a lot of money, so when I get screwed, it's devastating.

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> > So that's why I avoid buying hardware. But still, I need a laptop, and so here I am shopping and probably about to make some stupid and unrecoverable mistake that will cost me everything.

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> Perhaps there are guys here who can recommend a specific

> model for doing sound. If I didn't want to make a mistake I

> would try to get a firm recommendation and if that were

> lacking, the output of

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> cat /proc/interrupts; lspci; dmesg; etc.

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> from a linux live CD. At least you could know the hardware

> you have and the interrupts configuration.

>

> A good utility would be a test script to measure data

> throughput and latency. There must be such tools

> around.

> 

Thanks. OK, I'm buying the PATA unit.  Thanks to everyone who helped me with the SATA/PATA background, and who recommended ASUS laptops in a previous thread. It's been very helpful.
Reading my last post seems like I was getting a lot more emotionally overwrought about something as dry as a hardware purchase. But I'm feeling a lot more confident now... hopefully this will turn out well. Thanks again.
- -ken

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