XFi Xtreme Audio Notebook--Onboard MI

Question

I have the X-Fi Pro Elite on my desktop PC and am satisfied with the onboard MIDI it provides. I am looking at buying the X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook for use when I'm traveling but still working on MIDI files--can I expect the same or similar quality of onboard MIDI?

Answer 1

I wasn't confusing anything. To quote the page you linked to and to back up what I said:
"X-Fi Xtreme Audio
The entry-level model of the X-Fi series, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio, does not actually have the EMU20K chip but is a re-branded Audigy SE, using the same family of chips (CA006-WBTLF), and even the same drivers[2]. Thus, not only is all of the X-Fi?related processing performed in software, but it also lacks basic hardware acceleration just the like SB Li've! 24 bit, the Audigy SE and other budget Soundblaster models. The X-Fi Xtreme Audio does not use the same drivers as the rest of the X-Fi family, some games do not recognize it as being "X-Fi capable hardware", and the device's hardware profile resembles that of older Li've! and Audigy cards. Furthermore, users have reported that it slows down some applications and games [][2][3]. Thus, even if the card is marketed as part of the X-Fi line, it does not belong to it technically, just like the Audigy SE doesn't technically belong to the Sound Blaster Audigy series. The card is not marketed as supporting the "X-Fi Gaming Mode" (but is still marketed as "X-Fi"), and there are no official implicit or explicit statements regarding its having hardware acceleration or not."