[TriLUG] laptop shopping

[Ken MacKenzie]

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On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

> As for the apple multimedia advantage it comes down to a realtime kernel
> and yes IOS has a realtime kernel.  In short audio interrupts get handled
> real time.  Not desirable on a server but on a workstation and especially a
> tablet very.  In the windows world this is taken care of by the ASIO
> drivers.  In the linux world we often compile our own realtime kernel.
>  Arch actually allows kernel settings that supplant the need to go full
> real time except for high demand real time.  I have been able to do 8
> channel fire wire audio over arch without the need for a true real time
> kernel.  Before that I used to run Fedora with CCRMA kernel.
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> Ken
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