Acer laptop issues..

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Hey guys, recently I bought an Acer 9303 laptop. Very fast pc, but it seems it just cannot work well with any soundcard.

I tried:
Presonus firepod
Mackie Spike
Tascam US-122L

All three of the device had audio skips, or the computer didn't recognize the device after restarting. I think of selling the laptop, cause all devices work well on other PC's. A friend of mine also has an Acer laptop and has the same troubles.

I would say: never buy an Acer for audio recording purposes!

Any of you had the same experiences with Acer laptops?
 
are those all firewire cards? i know the presonus is. it probably has a ricoh firewire chipset, and those are inferior to the Texas instruments chipsets that most audio cards are built to be compatible with.
 
The other two are USB devices.
Yeah I know about the TI-compatibility thing.. But it didn't work out either.

I think I just switch back to desktop-pc, recording with laptop is waay to unreliable for me!
 
could be a multitude of issues. inferior USB/firewire chipsets, 4,200 RPM hard drive instead of 5,400 RPM, interrupt conflicts....you didn't even mention the specs of the computer. do you have enough RAM? are you using Windows Vista when your hardware is not compatible? etc...
 
Yeah inferior USB/firewire chipsets could be the case. But I tried a couple, so that would be a bad thing if thats true. I tried both XP and Vista.

AMD Turion 64x2 - 1,6 GHz
120 GB harddisk - 5400 RPM
2 GB DDR2 Memory
 
hm, I would expect that to work fine. I guess it's just one of those things where they cut costs in a place most people won't notice. when I sold computers, I felt bad about selling most people an Acer, Compaq, eMachines, etc...
 
Well this is discouraging :(, I just ordered an Acer Aspire 5720-6497 because it had Firewire, S/PDIF out, dedicated video memory and a DVI video connection. I read the reviews that pointed to problems with playing HD-DVD but that didn't really concern me. No Firewire "audio" devices at this time but I had hoped to be able to use it to capture the digital output from the Firewire port on our Motorola DVR.

I was a bit concerned about buying Acer. I had some of their stuff long, long ago and it was pretty decent for a 2nd tier manufacturer. In fact I liked many of there features better than the name brand guys. I've had two Compaq laptops and they've been excellent. One was pre-HP take over but both were equally well built and have performed exceedingly well. Never did try the Firewire on either of them though.
 
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