Creative finally released an express card sound device for notebooks.
It has optical in/out as well as true 7.1 output. They've had it up on their site for a while but I wasn't able to find it at any retailer online or offline until recently. I found it at Dell last week and went ahead and ordered it (normally don't even look here for accessories- don't flame me).
Its far from a PCI based X-Fi card but still a huge gain over most all stock notebook audio.
http://creative.com/products/product.asp?category=209&subcategory=669&product=16642
It has optical in/out as well as true 7.1 output. They've had it up on their site for a while but I wasn't able to find it at any retailer online or offline until recently. I found it at Dell last week and went ahead and ordered it (normally don't even look here for accessories- don't flame me).
Its far from a PCI based X-Fi card but still a huge gain over most all stock notebook audio.
http://creative.com/products/product.asp?category=209&subcategory=669&product=16642
( only apps... such a shame. Please help me, I only need the driver, couldn't be so large in size...