In message <Pine.NEB.4.44.0207200124280.438-100000@yerfable.azeotrope.org>, Dav
e Huang writes:
>On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
>> ... that's a bad idea, and everyone knows it except Microsoft.  There's NO
>> advantage, and it wastes space on your scsi/ide bus. _Maybe_ I can see it a
>> good idea if you had some extreme desire to use a equilizer on your CD audio
>> output, but even then.
>
>Apple's been doing it too. I have plenty of space on my SCSI/IDE bus
>(come on, 172Kbytes/s isn't a huge amount of bandwidth). And the
>advantage is that the inside of your computer's an electrically noisy
>place--with USB speakers, you can keep the signal digital until you get
>to the speakers.

The disadvantage is that my Mac laptop can't play a CD while ANYTHING
interesting is happening, it skips constantly.

-s