mark.
zzounds.com and music123.com have a slew of usb devices.
ive posted in the past a whole thread called "my tips"
in the tips n triks section of pg. n laptops are mentioned.
to save me retyping pages , have a gander at my tips at your leisure.
for example a behringer uca 202 is cheap for getting audio into/out from a laptop.
(plug art line out into line in of behr.)
a toneport is 50 buks and has low latency drivers.
or a new product edirol ua1g might be usefull.
just make sure you can get money back on any device in case it dont work well
with your laptop.

also run dpc latency checker on your laptop.
it will help you identify any tasks that might interfere with the audio task.
and help you in conjunction with win task manager to identify non essential
processes that might be hogging your laptop.
god bless.

Last edited by manning1; 04/09/09 09:05 AM.
retired puter engr....powertracks on amd......NICE !
"what is the black art of audio engineering ?"
my silly songs...motagator.com/bmanning
see my tips in the tips section.