RE: Laptop recommendations

["Paul Weissman" <paul-mailinglists@nioterra.com>]

the one that was stolen was an inspiron 8100.  i also owned another 
inspiron
one from about 2-3 years ago.  both have been used many times in
performance.  no noise on rme hdsp... can't speak for anything else.  i
would never use the internal outs on any pc sound card without some kind of
shielding or transformer like mark suggested.

paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: biz-looper@groovetronica.com [mailto:biz-looper@groovetronica.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:01 PM
> To: Paul Weissman; Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations
>
>
>
> Hmm, that's one thing I never tried. Running the computer without
> a ground,
> in club and rehearsal spaces where I can't guarantee the power
> quality seems
> a little scary....
>
> Let me reiterate - this isn't ground hum - this is noise. Louder
> than a line
> level signal.
>
> What model is your >old< laptop? Perhaps it's only an issue with
> units made
> in the past two or three years..
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Weissman" <paul-mailinglists@nioterra.com>
> To: <biz-looper@groovetronica.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:55 PM
> Subject: RE: Laptop recommendations
>
>
> >
> > couldn't disagree more.  dells rock.  i've worked with sony,
> ibm and dell
> > laptops... i'm about to buy a new laptop (old one was stolen)
> and... it's
> > going to be a dell!  and yes this is the machine i'm going to
> be using for
> > music performance.
> >
> > it's true that there is bad ground hum in my old dell, but a 3-2 prong
> > converter on the laptop power supply makes quick work of it.  no hum.
> >
> > outside of that, everything else is great...
> price/performance.. look and
> > feel... latency with rme hdsp (3ms)... just a great deal overall.
> >
> > but, to each his own, i guess...
> >
> > paul
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: biz-looper@groovetronica.com
[mailto:biz-looper@groovetronica.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:37 AM
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations
> >
> >
> > > Also, most of the new laptops have Firewire, but you might also look
for
> > USB
> > > 2.0 for flexibility. I just noticed the new Dell laptops now
> > have USB 2.0,
> > > which is great.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Unless you can check the unit before you buy it, STAY AWAY from all
things
> > Dell.
> >
> > I haven't seen their current production models, but on every unit
> > I've tried
> > (more than a few, since we use them at my day job), their power
> > supply feeds
> > directly into the ground, which means that you can't use them for any
kind
> > of audio with the power plugged in - a horrible and unavoidable hum
occurs
> > when you plug them into any kind of mixer or power speakers. There is 
>no
> > solution - it even happens with USB audio.
> >
> > When I talked to Dell support, the said they knew of no plans to 
>rectify
> > this.
> >
> > bIz
> >
> >
>
>
>