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Am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2008 schrieb Peter O'Doherty:

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> > -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.

> Am I a typical spoiled Mac user then who assumes that the laptop

> comes with a soundcard and it's simply a matter of plugging speakers

> into the headphone slot? It seems I'm too naive.

Did you ever listen to the quality coming out of laptop-soundcards?
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bad audio-quality. There is just no way to get the shielding right inside o=

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a notebook. Unless you use a shielded card in the pcmcia/pccard-slot.
While it might sound good with (cheap) headphones, its definitely a no-go w=

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connected to big power systems. Apart from the fact that symmetric=20

connections are much easier for disconnecting the earth...
Have fun,
Arnold

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visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/

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to all your contacts.

After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your=20

administrator to do so...
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