Re: Silent keyboard (was http://www.footmouse.com)

Hi Carl,

> >Yes makes sense to make everything one can external including the cd
> >or dvd drive because anything you always carry around adds to the noise
> >and the weight doesn't it.
>
> Yes. And another secret is to get a gig or more of RAM and turn off
> paging. Then set your hard drive to spin down after 1 min. The result
> is a silent PC with 25-33% more battery life and prolonged hard drive
> life/reliability (because you're not running it as much, and you're
> protecting it from shocks while it's running).

Rightio. I'll bear that in mind. If recording one could record
directly to RAM couldn't one and not use the hard disk at all.

Indeed one could set up a virtual RAM drive which I think isn't
too hard to do (I think it is a matter of adding a line to ones
autoexec.bat or some such)

Then one could add a command to ones autoexec.bat to
copy the programs one uses into that RAM disk automatically
on start up with everything they need,
and run everything from RAM - and then of course
makes sure that all ones work on the RAM drive gets automatically
mirrored back to the hard disk before it gets switched off.

Then it would hardly use the hard disk at all, not when
recording anyway.

>
> Laptops come with onboard soundcards. My thinkpad has a very popular
> one, the Crystal Soundfusion which provides the basic SoundBlaster
> compatible stuff. Then get something like this for MIDI and good
> quality recording...
>
> http://www.tascam.com/product_info.php?pid=253&nav=computer_recording

Okay fine. Thanks for the link.

Robert