RE: choosing a laptop

[J Johans <parispro00@hotmail.com>]

thanks for the replies-

lots of info out there on the web- hard to pick through whats relevant to my scenario-

ill keep hacking away and post my results, but its good to hear people have success with getting an express fiewire card...ill probably end up buying one to try out if tweaking internal seeting does not work

ty

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> From: jeff.larson@sailpoint.com
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:54:19 -0600
> Subject: RE: choosing a laptop
>
>
> > > Does the express card also use a non-TI chipset?
> >
> > from what ive read,no it doesnt-
>
> Then this does suggest a chipset problem.
>
> > even if the express Firewire card has TI chipset..........
> > the chipset for the express slot READER is not TI....
> > so it makes no difference....
>
> I don't think that's true. I've heard about FW chipset
> incompatibility problems but never about PCI-express SLOT
> problems. They are totally different. You can have IRQ
> conflicts with PCI-express but this is unrelated to the
> circuitry.
>
> There seems to be mountains of evidence that Dells with the Ricoh
> chipset suck, but lots of people use PCI-express interfaces with Dells
> successfully.
>
> Jeff
>

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