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Audio in HD · 14th October 2008

Well, from my recent experience I can throw something in under the "What computer I should buy" heading.

Now I realize that this is said alot, but I MUST re-iterate the necessity of a TI firewire chipset and the complete refusal of anything that uses a Ricoh firewire chipset. Ricoh chipsets "in notebooks" are uncorrectable by expresscard 1394 even when it is TI. This is not a myth.

I went from a Dell E1505 with a T7600 (2.33ghz), 4gb 533mhz Ram, 200gb 7200rpm HDD and TI chipset running 36 plugin heavy tracks in Nuendo at 24/96 pretty fluidly. The same projects however in my insanely high specced laptop (Asus G50V - X9100 OC'ed to 3.54ghz, 2x 320gb 7200rpm HDD in Raid-0, and 4gb 800mhz ram) with the huge flaw of a Ricoh chipset will not even run those projects without the interface (Echo Audiofire12) totally crapping out.

So with all other specs in mind Rule number one of "What laptop should I buy" is something with a Firewire chipset that is clearly supported by your interface manufaturer (and never Ricoh).

14th October 2008	#7
Audio in HD Gear Head Joined: Oct 2008 Location: Johnson City, TN Posts: 33	Well, from my recent experience I can throw something in under the "What computer I should buy" heading. Now I realize that this is said alot, but I MUST re-iterate the necessity of a TI firewire chipset and the complete refusal of anything that uses a Ricoh firewire chipset. Ricoh chipsets "in notebooks" are uncorrectable by expresscard 1394 even when it is TI. This is not a myth. I went from a Dell E1505 with a T7600 (2.33ghz), 4gb 533mhz Ram, 200gb 7200rpm HDD and TI chipset running 36 plugin heavy tracks in Nuendo at 24/96 pretty fluidly. The same projects however in my insanely high specced laptop (Asus G50V - X9100 OC'ed to 3.54ghz, 2x 320gb 7200rpm HDD in Raid-0, and 4gb 800mhz ram) with the huge flaw of a Ricoh chipset will not even run those projects without the interface (Echo Audiofire12) totally crapping out. So with all other specs in mind Rule number one of "What laptop should I buy" is something with a Firewire chipset that is clearly supported by your interface manufaturer (and never Ricoh).