AP 2496 is not for laptop, being a PCI card.

There are lots of USB options that include both Audio and MIDI capabilities in one unit, I would recommend the M-Audio Fast Track Pro as one that I personally know has performed well with pgmusic products on a friend of mine's Toshiba laptop. There were a few shakedown bugs to iron out, a few tweaks, but after that, everything has been up and running fine for well over half a year for him.


--Mac