I don't know much about this, but i'm pretty sure you can't get as low a latency as that of Linux and Mac OS in windows. The thing is that "performance and studio" doesn't mean anything per se. If you only need a drum machine or a sequencer for your performance, then you don't really care about latency at all. Same for recording. Latency only becomes a problem when you need to process your sound in real time (if you want to apply an effect on a voice for instance), or when you need to do some overdubbing (recording a track while listening to another). For this you need a real low latency, which implies direct access to the processor for your audio data, and i don't think Windows allows that.

2010/8/1 Michal Seta <mis@artengine.ca>
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Concepcion
<jeffreyconcepcion@gmail.com> wrote:
> i already have an acer netbook, but the issues there are horrifying
> latency and breakup of the sound (at least on windows), pierre's solution
> seems like my ticket for now, as i don't need to have the system on me.

FYI,  we have purchased some recent eeepc (I cannot tell exactly
which, I don't have the info at hand).  It was pre-loaded with windows
7.  I installed ubuntu loaded with the necessary libraries and pd.  I
have experimented with running our pd patches under windows but the
performance terrible compared to linux (even before tweaking any
settings to improve performance).  I could run the same setup on an
Acer Aspire One but the processing is not very intensive, in any case.
 On the other hand, I do not know how to make Windows efficient, it
must be possible since there are so many people relying on it for
performance and studio work.

./MiS

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