Utterly OT: Laptops

You might get a bit more response if you explained what you are trying to achive.

In message , Sean writes

Well, all I'm trying to achieve is what I said. I'm trying to pull together a list of laptops that behave in a certain way with certain standard audio signals together with a list of ones that don't.

I believe I have found a way of triggering certain behaviour that relates to complaints that are fairly rife on the net about audio glitches.

I just want people without an axe to grind to help. I know the vagueness doesn't make it any easier.

Sean, if you have an appropriate laptop, I'd be delighted if you would join in. Shall I send you a file? It's about 10 megs.

Many thanks to the person who responded, taking the ratio to 8 to 2.5 (is a Mac mini a laptop?) With the 8 being the machines that fail the test.

Most mailboxes would choke having a 10M file sent to them - put it up online somewhere for us to download and we will have a go.

In message , Sean writes

Yes, I know, that's why in my original posting I said

"I'm looking for anyone who has access to a fairly recent laptop that has HD Audio as the on-board audio chipset, and who would be willing to generate, download or accept in email", and left email as the third option.

I'm sorry to have made this rather convoluted when I'm asking for help, but feel I do need to get results on a 1 to 1 basis to be sure there is some attempt at validity.

Sean, I'll email you the download site.

Plays fine on:

Dell C640 XP Dell C640 Vista Ultimate Dell Precision M90 Centrino Duo XP Dell Precision M90 Centrino Duo Vista Ultimate Mac G3 OSX Mac G4 OSX Power Book G4 Mac Book Pro 2.4G Intel Core 2 Duo (OSX+XP) iMac 64 Bit Intel Core 2 Duo (OSX + XP)

Then we got bored, hope this helps.

Regards,

Sean Moore

In message , Sean writes

Thanks Sean. I've added these to my list.

I would still like to get a few more results if possible, especially from people with lower-end laptops.