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Re: OT: Help! Need advice about HP and Firewire Audio.
Just a general note on my experience with Compaq/HP. We have a very
inexepensive Compaq desktop that we got for my wife and daughter.
Caveat here is that I have no idea how it is with FW. All they use it
for is internet, schoolwork, Office, Email. But, it runs 24 hours a
day and has for 2 years. The only problem we had was the NIC went
bad. I just bought a NIC card and it's been fine since. So, from
that perspective, I'm happy with Compaq/HP.
I, on the other hand, prefer to build my own.
A friend of mine used this company to configure systems for their
office desktops.
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/
You can pick which components you want and the price, from what I
recall, was reasonable. They use good components, and the cases are
cool. ;)
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Mark Sottilaro<zerocrossing@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've been up and down the ol' information superhighway and I can't for
> the life of me find anything on this, so I'm hoping a LDer might be
> able to shed some light on this for me.
>
> I'm seriously considering transitioning my Toshiba laptop to become a
> general use computer and replacing it with a decent, but budget priced
> desktop PC. In my search HP keeps coming up as decently priced and
> featured. One of the features they seem to have is on board Firewire.
> The problem is my MOTU 828 recommends only using the Firewire cards
> with a TI chipset. I can't find anything about the HPs that mention
> what chipset they use. I've written and called and got no response
> from their sales dept. (way to go HP!)
>
> Anyway, has anyone had success using recent HP desktop machines with
> firewire audio? Should I not care and just get any computer and
> install a Firewire card?
>
>
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Tony