Posted 11/27/2008 at 09:45:47am

See the post by Dell at en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2008/08/15/stereo-mix-record-functionality-and-dell.aspx claiming that their reason was a last minute pre-release change in Vista specs. I posted there to complain that they knew about the deficiency from the early 2007 Vista release date, yet the XPS 420 desktop I bought in October 2008 still has the same problem. I chastised them for selling me a machine that they new was broken. Dell's response was to remove my post and block me from the forum. In the above post they claim they will restore this function in NEW notebooks at the hardware level. So, no problem, you can fix this by merely buying a new Dell notebook.