So, I have invested in a Lenovo K320 i5 machine. Very nice.
I use Linux Mint as my main OS (absolutely LOVE Linux), and have Renoise installed.
I am using Jack, and have managed to get it to work (eventually).
Couple of issues though;
1.This machine I have is definitely fast enough to run Firefox and Renoise at the same time, but for some reason, I seem to get a hell of a lot of xruns when they are both open. I don’t get the same with Chrome running at the same time as Renoise. A
3 CPUs in preferences gives me a much lower CPU % than when I change it to 4…
Any ideas on this?
When I don’t have Firefox running, Renoise is f-ing fantastic. I am never ever going back to Windoze.
I’m not sure what it is with these i5 machines, i have gotten a new laptop from my employer recently, which is also an i5. Before that i had a Duo core HP laptop and this one ran quite a lot better with a lot of stuff open than my new one.
I think the i5 machines are not as splendid as the makers advertise them for.
Also had a recent debate about the new hyperthreading CPU’s with some server admins at the X-party, they remain shit regarding audio and visual applications that are strict cpu thread hungry simply because these cpu’s don’t have real separate cores and mess up the thread division compensation. Hp/Compaq all went back to Xeon technology in their newer servers because the newer Intel CPU architectures don’t do the job they say they should do.
Regarding Chrome vs Firefox:
Chrome uses a different threading architecture, that is why if some part of chrome hangs, the rest continues. Chrome and Firefox are two completely different applications even though they serve the same purpose.