News Audio Sonica USB Audio at Short-Media

Short-Media looks at an interesting widget of the sonic persuasion, one that could be useful to those of you with older lappies that don't have the benifit of decent sound hardware:

Consumers typically invest in processor, ram and video card before thinking about audio. This is especially true for laptop users. The laptop user may be packing a powerful computer but the audio may be very poor or even non-existent. M-Audio has one solution with the external Sonica USB audio card. This simple device delivers 24 bit/96kHz audio in analog or digital straight to the desktop speakers or home theatre system.

Full review here