Audio Production Laptop

[Jason Schaefer]

I am a huge fan of the Lenovo (ibm) thinkpads! They have the best
suspend support and they use well supported hardware, which is not
always true of Dell or anyone else. I have the thinkpad t61 15.4
widescreen 1680x1050, which is a great resolution for working with
ardour and hydrogen, etc. It is a little large for lots of travel, but
with the 6 cell battery, its very light. I have the iwl 3945 ABG
wireless. Its awesome except the need for proprietary firmware. The
atheros has free drivers now, ath9k https://www.fsf.org/news/ath9k So
I might replace the mini-pci intel wireless with one of those:-) I
also love how rugged the computer is, great for traveling. I take my
laptop everywhere and my previous dell laptops would get wobly screens
and flimsy keys. The price was great too, (2gb mem, 2.1 intel core 2
duo, bluetooth, wifi, dvd/cd burner, 3 yr full protection warranty,
built in mem card reader) $1170.00

Oh and lastly, I recently built the 2.6.26.5 kernel patched with
realtime rt and the internal intel hda sound card became a rock solid,
extremely low latency sound card (~ 5ms). Previously it was crap and I
was forced to always use my m-audio fast track pro (~8ms).