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You are not "stuck with" whatever sound device the laptop comes with at all.

There are USB sound devices that you can purchase and use with the laptop.

--Mac



I was speaking to the fact that on a laptop you don't have a PCI slot to put a better sound card in as you do on a desktop.

In fact I just ordered a new Dell for the studio JUST so I can put in a dual head video card and a sound card with RCAs. My application is more concerned with input to the laptop than output coming from it, by standard disclaimer, that is just me.

As my post stated, I use an M-Audio USB Fast Track Pro 2. I also don't like the speed of a USB port vs the bus speed across the slots on the motherboard, but you can't have everything. If I had the skills to do so, I would find a way to convert that USB MIDI interface/sound device to run at mobo bus speed. A CPU with a lot of front end bus speed, like 800 mhz, vs the 480 mhz of USB 2.0.....but I am not a good enough hardware hacker to risk ruining several hundred dollars worth of equipment while I try to Frankenstein together a super MIDI rig.

I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.

1. How much did you make in 2023?
2. Send it to us.