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I keep reading about the Sonoma/PCIe problem and I am getting confused looking for a laptop. I know I need dedicated graphics as I currently run video simultaneously off the same machine, but I can't seem to tell which models are going to give me a problem. Right now I am looking at:

Compaq Presario V4000T (same as HP dv4000)
Intel(R) Pentium(R) M Processor 760 (2.0 GHz) (Sonoma, I think)
128MB ATI MOBILITY(TM) RADEON(R) X700

My impression is that this is not shared memory, but like I said it's getting confusing as to what PCIe problems actually are, is this more than a rumor at this point?

I need to run Live 5 with rewired Arkaos, and Presonus Firepod interface.

go for nvidia they are way better than ati.

look for Nvidia Geforce Go 6200, 6600, 6800
that's your best bet

Anyone know about the PCIe - Sonoma issue?

What problems do you mean? I read that Sonoma has problems with audio but I never read a comprehensive article about it: what will cause prolems?

Actually sonoma doesn't have problems with audio.
Desktop motherboards with PCIe had problems with audio (especially nForce 4 based), that's why there was a lot of speculations when sonoma came out, that it will have the same problems, but as it turned out, it doesn't. I think I've read that intel changed the PCI controller or something... So it actually performs great for audio work.

Sonoma are actually the best thing ever happened to musicians, probably accidently it is the best for audio.
Anyway the one you mention is not Sonoma which end with 5 ( as far as I understand Intel numbering system), so "760" should be previous model.
the only problem are the ones with Intel integrated graphic ( that come in cheapest models of whatever brand) , never buy these for music or any serious use.

I am sure that the ending 5 is not connected to Sonoma or previous chipsets: my CPU is a 745 Pentium-M and my chipset is the 855PM and I bought it six months before Sonoma came out.
It should be something like:
735 -> 1,7GHz
740 -> 1,73
750 -> 1,86
755 -> 2,0
760 -> 2,13

wtf is Sonoma?

Seems like a bad product name considering there is already heaps of stuff
(including towns) called that.

btw ATI is probably better then Nvidia now-a-days... Especially seeing that
you have the option of SLI'ing 2 cards together.

-Ben

It sounds like Sodoma, anyway i dont think these names are any worse then car names, specially form Korea

noou wrote:I am sure that the ending 5 is not connected to Sonoma or previous chipsets: my CPU is a 745 Pentium-M and my chipset is the 855PM and I bought it six months before Sonoma came out.
It should be something like:
735 -> 1,7GHz
740 -> 1,73
750 -> 1,86
755 -> 2,0
760 -> 2,13

I dont remember where I read that 5 thing, might be wrong, anyway here is what Intel says

Guidelines
The processor number is not a measurement of performance, nor is it the only factor to consider when selecting a processor.

The digits themselves have no inherent meaning, particularly when looking across processor families. For instance, 840 is not "better" than 640 simply because 8 is greater than 6.

Furthermore, linear increments between processor numbers may not indicate linear feature advancements. For example, the differences in processor features between an Intel® Pentium® M processor 760 and an Intel® Pentium® M processor 765 will not be the same as between an Intel® Pentium® M processor 765 and an Intel® Pentium® M processor 770, even though both pairs of processors are separated by an increment of five digits.

Processor numbers do not represent specific system configurations and do not replace system-level benchmarks.