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I agree on this one for the most part, and I even have a XP laptop. If you have a high performance laptop and it is up to date, I see no reason to optimize, unless you just like doing this thing. I think folks are getting too obessive/compulsive and hung up on this thing. I did some optimization on mine, but it wasn't to fix any problems. I argued with tech support for hours yesterday over this, regarding the E-MU 1616 cardbus I purchaed. Fors starters, my ThinkPad T60p worked fine right out of the box for running anything audio app I give it. All those OS stuff running in the background, security, network, virus programs, automatic updaters, etc...I left it all, and I am still challenged to use the CPU capacity. It's a screamin' computer...resources are NOT the issue. I was on tech support with a guy and he asked me to tell him how many processes I had running in the background, as if that could be a cause of an ASIO driver/communition and latency issue. I asked "Why?". Why would this all of a sudden be the issue just for this case, when this has never been the problem for all other hardware and apps I've run with success? He continues to debate from his script card. My laptop has 2gig of RAM, duo core 2Ghz processors, etc...it's not even getting close to using the CPU and memory resources to run the OS, and that is with MAX running with tons of patches activated, etc. And of course, I concluded at the end of the day that it was the E-MU ASIO driver that was the problem, not my laptop or MAX. It's funny how your notebook can work perfectly fine with every other app and hardware, and then as soon as you have a problem with a particular system and manufacture, tech support assumes the issue is your laptop. It can't possibly be a problem with their product! :) So much for the process of elimination....apparenly that logic doesn't work with some tech support folk...they just go through their canned list of questions and procedure blindly. Kris ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:16 AM Subject: Re: Laptops -dedicated to music only? > No. Why would that be necessary? > > I used to use a PowerBook G4 667MHz and didn't keep it reserved for > music then, and it worked fine. Now I have a hugely more powerful > MacBook Pro and see even less reason to keep it "just for music". > > I mean, really, what is there to "optimise"? It just works. > > > cheers, > os. > > > On 27/06/07, Qua Veda <qua@oregon.com> wrote: >> Question for those of you who use laptops. >> Do you dedicate/optimize the laptop for use with music/audio/video only? >> (i.e. , no email, finances, other personal apps that you might use on a >> personal computer) >> >> -Qua >> >> > > > -- > os@collective.co.uk > http://www.collective.co.uk/ > http://www.myspace.com/darkroomtheband > >