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Hi. I'm a new member of ARSC. I really enjoyed the conference in Phila. and find the list very informative. I have a technical question about digital audio recording and editing with a laptop. I know very little about digital recording, but am going to be doing it for some projects I'll be working on. I will soon be buying a laptop to replace my desktop and want to use it for recording and editing also. Are there any special features or inputs/outputs that I should get? The model I'm looking at - Dell Inspiron 5100 - has a firewire and 2 USB ports. Will these be sufficient? Can you connect an external sound card or a digital mixer or recorder to them or do I need something else?. I don't know yet what other hardware or software I'll be using, but I need to get the computer soon and want to be sure that whatever I get will allow me input and output audio properly. Any and all advice/suggestions would be appreciated. Jack McCarthy, Oral Historian _________________________________________________________________ Get MSN 8 and enjoy automatic e-mail virus protection. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus