On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:39:16 +1100, Allan Klinbail wrote: > When using laptops it is highly recommended to use a firewire hard disk > as your recording media as the latency of the hard drive on even the > best laptops is unacceptable under any OS (especially when multitracking > even just on output).
Really? I haven't had any problems on my (well, work's) dell i8100. The disk is about as quick as 3.5" drives in desktops were a year or two ago. The only thing you have to do is make sure that HD sleep is turned off, or remember to wake it up. - Steve