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Requests for laptop recommendations come up occasionally so I thought I share the good news about my latest purchase. I got an Acer Extensa 5620-6030 for $700 and it ran the Live Five Performance test at 15%. Pretty good since my quad core home built computer scores 13%. My biggest problems with laptops have been the USB implementation since I use a Line 6 USB Toneport DI with the Gold plug in. I've had a lot of problems with substandard USB performance. None so far with the Acer. That 15% score holds solid at the minimum latency settings on the Line 6 toneport. The Acer Extensa also has the desired TI chipset for the onboard firewire interface. The two significant downsides are a 5400 rpm hard drive (you can buy 7200rpm laptop drives for $100 these days) and it comes loaded with Windows Vista Business and about 15 or 20 bloatware applications. At some point I'll probably put in a faster hard drive and Windows XP, but for now I'm happy. I bought mine from newegg.com which doesn't allow returns, so don't buy it there on my recommendation. I can't say that it will work for everyone. The gold standard for audio laptops is still the MacBook pro. YMMV. Specs seem impressive to me given the price: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2Ghz, 3Gb RAM (!). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115493 -- Art Simon simart@null.net art.simon.tripod.com myspace [dot] com/artsimon