Re: OT: Help! Need advice about HP and Firewire Audio.

[Mark Sottilaro <zerocrossing@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the info.  That's not good at all.  Perhaps their desktops
are more sturdy though... I they're all we use at work, and we're
doing a lot of 3d work that's pretty processor intensive and they seem
to hold up well.  Our IT people said they've had good experiences with
them.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Ian Petersen<iep@mail.dk> wrote:
> mark,
>>
>> Anyway, has anyone had success using recent HP desktop machines with
>> firewire audio?
>
> I don't have any experience with HP desktop machines, but the HP Pavilion
> laptop I had recently was the worst laptop I've ever owned. 17" top of 
>the
> range 'multimedia' model, but Firewire was dreadful (admittedly I was 
>using
> a TC Konnekt interface which are famously buggy). Ricoh chipset I think. 
>The
> whole machine fell to bits after a year (and it basically never left my
> coffee table) ...
> Ian