Is there a Windows laptop available that has stereo audio input?

Real simple. Buy a USB head set. this will allow you to have a digital vs. analog audio which is much more desireable. If you by a headset with a mic it will also allow you to record audio with the ability to edit more quickly and easily with less static or the chance of the anlalog connector being damaged.

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yes! all of them do! go to radioshach to find the part to connect it to your laptop.

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Yes but what part, can you be a bit more specific?

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If you find a laptop with stereo audio input, I'll buy it too: as far as I can tell they all have only mono input. One way around this is to buy a USB audio adapter price around $100

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Some do, but most don't. If a laptop has only 2 audio jacks, they're usually a stereo line output and a mono microphone input (mono only because a microphone normally has a mono plug; the input goes to both channels of the sound card). But if it has 3 audio jacks, that 3rd one is usually a stereo line input. Toshiba and Acer are two brands I know of that often have a line input jack.

I've heard rumors that built-in sound cards in laptops have poor audio quality. I don't know if that's true (I probably wouldn't be able to tell, anyway), but maybe that's why a lot of them don't bother with a line input. So if high sound quality is important to you, and compactness isn't, then you might end up buying the external USB sound card even if you get a laptop with 3 inputs.

One example of an external USB sound card is Creative Labs "Soundblaster Live!" ($45 at TigerDirect). I have the older, lower-sound-quality model that preceded it, and I like it a lot. I use it to record mp3 files from my old LP's.

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