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I have a 14" Edge 019923U with 2.3Mhz dual core AMD Turion that plays and streams video well. except I cannot get audio when I use HDMI, under LinuxMint, Ultimate Edition or Ubuntu. I suspect the issue is related to the AMD audio hardware.

I'm looking to upgrade to a 2012 Windows 7 Lenovo 14". I want a powerful multimedia laptop but I do not want to do overkill & get further than necessary into a gaming system. I just need something that will do XBMC video and sound playing & HDMI streaming well. Any suggestions about models I may want to consider would be appreciated.

BruisedQuasar wrote:I have a 14" Edge 019923U with 2.3Mhz dual core AMD Turion that plays and streams video well. except I cannot get audio when I use HDMI, under LinuxMint, Ultimate Edition or Ubuntu.

Have you tried Windows? The 019923U should have included a Windows 7 COA.

It might be worth throwing Windows on temporarily just to see if it's a limitation with the linux drivers or a hardware limitation. You could also get an external sound card as a workaround, too. It'd be cheaper than a new laptop at least.

Thank you for the replies. HDMI works fine under windows but I hate windows and I have since Windows 3.1. I only use it when I have absolutely no other choose. I also hate media player boxes like AppleTV and Roku. Like the Microsoft cartel, I see the media box makers as robber barons, corporations that are ethical monsters. They are dishonest from the start beginning with who they want people to think they focus on as their customers.

I will be brief as possible about my war with these mainstream rouges, who in their own way divide people into the masses and the corrupt elites. Microsoft customers has always been big corporate America, beginning with IBM, whom Bill Gates conned into thinking he owned MS-DOS and the factory owner and owner of MS-DOS he conned into thinking he was taking a failed O/S off his hands. Since then, Microsoft serves the big dollar monopolistic software companies and giant computer makers.

Media Player companies, especially Roku, really sell their boxes at near cost because their customers are the high dollar paying content sellers HBO, Amazon, Vudu, etc, which is why Roku blocks YouTube apps (and denies doing so), internet browser apps, efficient external storage apps, etc. It herds Roku Box owners into the cattle yards of the content sellers and most of them go meekly like cows to their (mental) slaughter.

Linux allows me to be the true owner of my computer and my own driver of internet media highways. XBMC media center software allows me to use media that is available on Internet. When people build and plant things along public roads, they cannot expect to charge a driver for looking at them. Likewise, when people place things along the public internet they cannot force money from people passing by. They can only hide things from the view of people with limited knowledge of the internet. For me, to use Windows or a Roku box is a modern version of being a subject or a peasant who obeys those who say they are his masters. I also believe in the true freedom had by paying my way with cash. I am astounded at how many people serve the financials as credit slaves. Outright labor Peonage has been illegal since the 1940s. Under modern labor laws, people are freed from debt salvery imposed on them by property owners. Then in the 1970s, they rushed to escape the yolk of freedom by volunteering to become credit card and bank loan slaves, working an increasing number of days each year for financial institutions. The middleclass began disappearing years ago back in 1970s with the birth of Master Charge & Government incentive home loans.

Now, the more disciplined youth volunteer and with the support and help of their parents to become credit slaves for many years by way of school loans. With government assistants these Americans volunteer to be university slaves. The clear beneficiaries of all this are professors and administrators and the politicians who get votes by supporting easy student loans and demanding no accountability from the schools.

You seem to be going WAY off topic here...

BruisedQuasar, your prejudice against rich people and big companies is already very well known on this forum, so there's no need to write yet another post like this. (Of course you are now tempted to write another super-long post explaining why you aren't prejudiced, but nobody is going to read it and so it would only waste your own time.) You are entitled to your opinion, and I respect that. However, I don't think you are boycotting Microsoft the right way. You see, when you bought this Windows 7 laptop, you already paid Microsoft a ceratin amount of money (perhaps $30?) to get the COA sticker, so it's really too late to boycott Microsoft. Whether or not you run Windows on this laptop has absolutely no impact on Microsoft. By refusing to use Windows, the only person that you are harming is yourself (because you can't get the HDMI audio to work). Making it worse, you are now contemplating buying yet another Windows 7 laptop, which would make Microsoft even richer!

The most logical thing to do is to stick with this 14" Edge and switch back to Windows, so that you won't have to buy another Windows laptop. And from now on, you should buy computers without Windows COA stickers. I know that at least Dell Business sells some laptops with no Windows stickers, and IBM used to do that as well.

Ever heard of ad hominem or strawman argument? What about my post supports your assumption that
I am not independently wealthy? What is "rich people"? The word itself is the great modern stereotype
programmed into our culture by politicians. There is no such person as "rich people", no such monolithic
person exists. Just as there is no "Jap" or "wet back" or Hispanic person. All recognized stereotypes
and product of prejudice and plain ignorant & lazy thinking.

The wealthy people I grew up with and know are very different from Donald Trump or Diane Feinstein, Barbara
Boxer or Tom Cruise. I happen to respect and much admire Steve Wozniac the real brain behind the computer
revolution. He so detested Steve Jobs that he bailed out of Apple years ago. He is worth at least 600 million
and he is a major contributor to the private space company Space X. I also admire the co-founder of Microsoft
who left it years ago. Unlike Bill Gates, he is a talented engineer.

Just as people who happen to own Ford automobiles are quite different from each other, so are people who
happen to have a lot of money. Money has nothing to do with why I dislike Bill Gates and predatory corporations
like Microsoft. I dislike how Bill Gates got his wealth, just as I dislike how Rockefeller and Edison got their wealth.
At the same time, I respect how Henry Ford got his wealth.

I respect people of weath whom like myself got their by wealth and by earning it and by seeing to it those
around them as well as society benefitted from their contribution. The Google Founders are extremely wealthy
but they got it from their genius, hard work and amazing productivity. Everyone who works with them benefit.

I'll share my basic investment formula. It applies here. Invest only in growth companies that have, without exception,
paid a good dividend each year for 20 plus years and be patient. In 20 years, you too can be well off. Apple, Microsoft,
Amazon & others with stock over $200 a share never pay a dividend, the sign of greedy senior executives and partners.
Such companies produce a lot of millionaires but give small investors nothing but a rigged gambling with the wild ups
and downs of the stock.

I know many wealthy people. With the exception of three of them, none are anything like most people have been
programmed to assume people of wealth to live or acquire wealth. My friends and I got our comfortable means by
way of hard work and THRIFT. My self made uncle taught me to never buy a brand new car or a house. To pay cash
for everything so I am never working for the bank or credit companies. Live low key and avoid expensive jewelry.
Loud people like Trump and Gates need 24\7 body guards and expensive alarm systems. Their family members are
always in danger of kidnapping. My close friends and I built our homes to fit in our small town neighborhood. You
would never know I have a bowling ally in my house or that my best friend has a swimming pool in his. Only a small
handful of people we can trust to be discrete have ever been past a certain area of our homes.

We do not throw money around, not because we are miserly, we are thrifty, but because we do not wish to
draw attention to our families. We have a private joke "Buy your wife expensive jewelry only if you want her mugged
or killed". "Give your children IPads and Iphones & most of what they want, only if you wish to make sure they
never amount to anything and want to insure they are never a decent human being"

No, I do not even dislike "rich people". Nothing in anything I write or say suggests I do. Right Wingers call me Liberal.
Liberals call me right wing. I call myself fact driven. I displease all political sides because I am more concerned with
trying to get at the truth than I am with looking correct.