The frame rate selector isn't just for people with slower machines -- 60 FPS is over kill for the screen refresh and my 17in 1.5 PowerBook was having issues with dropouts due to CPU utilization. They set me up as a beta tester for 1.3 a few months back. I use 10 FPS now and that is plenty. I haven’t had a single drop in probably 200 hours of 1.3 use. It’s rock solid. Worth the *free* upgrade. :-)

I agree 60fps is overkill. I use 30fps on my 1.6Ghz p4-m and i can get around 4-5ms audio latency. I also think my usb bus may be limiting how low i can set the buffer. Even when i have the video set to 5fps, the cpu usage drops to around 25-35% max but i can't set any lower than 4-5ms without audio droppouts. So i guess sunday when the boss isn't at work i'll bring my ssl interface, laptop, grab a pcmcia usb 2.0 card, and test to see if i can possiably lower the usb buffer to 1-2ms.

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