So much discussion has gone into what to look for in a laptop and such, but I haven't heard any discussion on the sound cards found in laptops. I have an Inspiron 7500 running RedHat 7.1, and I love this machine for everything except the sound. The screen is beautiful, and everything runs great, but when I hack away I've got a playlist of mp3's I like to keep running to keep my sanity, but with this laptop, and any other I've used for that matter, the sound flat out sucks. Has anyone had any different experiences with sound? Even external speakers don't do much. This alone keeps me from watching dvd's and using it for much of anything except for when I travel. Otherwise though, minus sound, Dell is the way to go, you cant beat the features, and the display, wow.
Did anyone happen to catch the stats on the osxonintel.com site? After averaging about a dozen a day, they have collected almost 700 today alone since 6 am when this article was posted on/. Check it out http://www.osxonintel.com/stats.cfm
I'd be willing to bet that there are many more who would love to ink their name if they only knew of this site.
Sure there needs to be research on what direction storage should head when we reach a limit on the capabilities of magnetic drives, but shouldn't we be focusing more on ways to improve the speed of the drives instead of the capacity?
This article states that although the new drives may hold many times more bits than today's drives, they will only run at about the same speed. Video editing is bad enough with the drives we have now. What is going to happen when we begin to work with HDTV streams or even uncompressed video?
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So much discussion has gone into what to look for in a laptop and such, but I haven't heard any discussion on the sound cards found in laptops. I have an Inspiron 7500 running RedHat 7.1, and I love this machine for everything except the sound. The screen is beautiful, and everything runs great, but when I hack away I've got a playlist of mp3's I like to keep running to keep my sanity, but with this laptop, and any other I've used for that matter, the sound flat out sucks. Has anyone had any different experiences with sound? Even external speakers don't do much. This alone keeps me from watching dvd's and using it for much of anything except for when I travel. Otherwise though, minus sound, Dell is the way to go, you cant beat the features, and the display, wow.
Did anyone happen to catch the stats on the osxonintel.com site? After averaging about a dozen a day, they have collected almost 700 today alone since 6 am when this article was posted on /. Check it out http://www.osxonintel.com/stats.cfm
I'd be willing to bet that there are many more who would love to ink their name if they only knew of this site.
Sure there needs to be research on what direction storage should head when we reach a limit on the capabilities of magnetic drives, but shouldn't we be focusing more on ways to improve the speed of the drives instead of the capacity?
This article states that although the new drives may hold many times more bits than today's drives, they will only run at about the same speed. Video editing is bad enough with the drives we have now. What is going to happen when we begin to work with HDTV streams or even uncompressed video?