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Originally Posted by 7slinger  does newegg ship international? if so, ya they are a good retailer to deal with
I don't think I saw it mentioned yet that there have been lots of problems with software hardware and Vista, mainly driver issues. I hope that by now some of these issues are getting resolved, but I haven't been following closely so I can't say for sure. Consider sticking with XP or maybe a dual-boot scenario |
I would just deal directly with the vendor, either Lenovo or Dell, depending on who you go with. With Dell business as well as Lenovo, you can select XP Pro as the OS; which you definitely want to do.
I wouldn't go with Vista. It's still consistently 10-15% slower compared to XP on identical hardware. I like Vista; I am testing it here for work. But for audio, I wouldn't use it.
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Originally Posted by Benzesp Very true, 
I I've tested the onboard audio with with many systems and it usually works fine. Check the Ubuntu Studio HCL for working External interfaces. |
Onboard audio is one thing; firewire interfaces is another. I've given up on Linux for audio, for now. It simply does not have the selection for software or devices or the support XP and OSX do.