<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Julian Brooks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbeezez@gmail.com" target="_blank">jbeezez@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
"I'd be interested in a recommendation for that (external soundcard for linux laptops)."<br><br>I have a Lenovo x61s (s/h £180, best laptop I've ever had) with an RME Hammerfall (v.1 [s/h £150]). It's great - stable, easy to setup, 8IO + the software HDSP_conf/mixer works well (and seems to have done for years). Firewire via pcmcia card: Got to love redundant technologies.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Is that a standard firewire card or RME's proprietary "quasi firewire"? <br><br>Andrįs<br>
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