So, in essence we agree that people should avoid these laptops, right? I see no point in being so defensive about the Alsa. I clearly stated in my e-mail that I am not out to bash Alsa, but rather give a friendly suggestion to people looking to buy decent laptops for DSP stuff. I am personally using older Inspiron 8000 which has Maestro 3i which can mix 2 simultaneous streams, and that sounds good enough for my composition purposes (since that enables me to use two different apps at the same time). Inspiron 8200 with its crappy CS4205 and Alsa with its incomplete driver = crappy sound. There is no point of blaming one or the other when both sides are "responsible" for the current state.
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