Great sound cards for a laptop?

[DontKnow]

I'm planning to buy a sound card at some point hopefully in the close future. Any ideas on what to buy? What's the better investment?

For now I find this one interesting:
Creative Labs SB1090 USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Audio System
There's a lot of good reviews for it on Amazon and it's only $50.

Thanks everyone.

 

[diduknowthat]

What are you planning to do with the sound card? Gaming? Music? Movies? Your choices are pretty limited when it comes to laptop sound card. At least you're looking at external ones, they're much better than the PC expansion slots junk cards.

 

[DontKnow]

"What are you planning to do with the sound card? "
I only want to listen to music.

"Your choices are pretty limited when it comes to laptop sound card"
I see. In that case I probably already found the best sound card around if things are so limited, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround.

"they're much better than the PC expansion slots junk cards."
Hmmm... I don't know nothing about PC expansion slots and how they compare to others.

 

[meticadpa]

Get a USB DAC.

 

[linkin]

Yeah i think the best you can get for laptops is one of those USB X-Fi's

 

[DontKnow]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

I'll try to get the USB X-Fi but I'll checkout the USB DAC on youtube and see what's on there on this.