Alot higher at my place aswell. Worried
Currently working on:
AMD 64 Athlon 2300 2,3Ghz
2G DDRAM (Licenced!) XP Home
Tascam US-122 USB soundcard.
Hard peaks is akso appering. never happend before.
ASIO - yes
Thanks! Now my laptop doesn’t jam totally anymore when playing song. Now the laptop is using 75% of CPU when playing the song, whereas the desktop AMD is using only 47% of CPU when playing same song…
I thought your desktop was Intel and your laptop AMD?
Anyway: Intel ain’t AMD, your desktop’s chipset ain’t your laptop’s chipset and so forth… it’s still comparing apples with peers.
But i’m glad you could reduce the problem.
Hmm… I just realized that you don’t have to turn CPU stepping off from BIOS separately. Changing power scheme to “allways on” or “Home office/desk” from XP’s power management options turns also stepping off. It seems that doing it this way does the thing better because now the song is running on my laptop consuming max. 43% of CPU!
Thank you very much from your advice vvoois! Renoise has never worked better!!! Thanks go also to the Renoise-team for the best tracker ever!
StBe / Trackin’ since 1991
StBe, your words confirm me that I’ve made the right thing when I decided not to buy a notebook for music. My songs are extremely CPU and RAM intensive, and notebooks are just still not the right tool for certain type of music composition
ok, but when I think at a notebook, I think at a tool-in-a-box which would let me compose while I’m on a train or at a demoparty exactly as if I were at home.
Present notebooks have not this characteristic because their battery time is still unsatisfactory, and since you need to disable the power-saving capabilities of the CPU in order for it to perform better, then the whole concept of power-saving of new notebooks is thrown away.
I have a desktop AMD 64X2 4200+ which has Cool&Quiet powersaving system. Though far from being really quiet (mostly because of hard disks and case noises), the CPU still works perfectly with C&Q enabled. Some of my songs require even 75% of this CPU power at times, and I doubt that there is a notebook capable of handling this at the moment. By the way, I’ve seen that some notebooks are being sold with big SATA HDs, though, and this is a very good enhancement.
Also, if I need to plug in an external soundcard to get decent latency, then there is even less interest.
Moreover, there is a compromise to be made between transportability and size of the monitor, which is an important factor when working with Renoise. Not that I can’t use it on a 14" screen (which I do on my Celeron 466 notebook, using RNS1.5), but if I would buy a notebook now, after 6.5 years after have bought my present one, I would at least search for something bigger, i.e. less transportable.
Oh well… I will just keep using my desktop, that’s all 
as far as performance is concerned,this puppy would outperform your X2 hands down.
basically any merom-based (core2duo mobile) laptop wouldn’t look too bad against your desktop, and everything going beyond the 2x2Ghz mark would be faster when raw processing power is concerned.
of course it’s way more expensive and won’t feature the display sizes you’d prefer, but it’s not like you couldn’t setup your laptop together with a 24" TFT when being at home. 