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Omeriah;266658 Wrote: > > ... But I and many of my friends are adamant about running SC7 through > an NAS, not through our PCs. In the name of energy efficiency, speed, > and performance, having a PC in the middle is just that, an unnecessary > middleman that sucks away energy, money, and performance. It took me a while, but I think I found the root of your post :-), you're as bad as I am! Social comment about open-source to commercial product transition: I believe this is the best one yet. Way to go, it's been a while since you posted those lab bench pictures w/the bottle of beer in the back ground. Let's keep the project as open sourced as possible. About NAS boxes: A NAS is a computer. Most run linux because M$ would cost them money. There's little margin for such extravagance and no real advantage that I can think of. Part of that cost cutting involves slower processors and less memory. Both are necessary to carry on SqueezeCenter features such as sound and image transcoding. These features are necessary to make the slimdevices/logitec experience as smooth as possible (i.e. Can an apple ipod play a FLAC file? Do you have to convert your album images all to jpeg or normalize the size to 800x800? No, it's done for you - every time - and in your case on your PC - not on your NAS box.). About PCs: They are getting faster, cooler and cheaper. I built my last duel core for less than $300 and I bet it's consuming less power then my 4 year old computer I'm using now. At some point in this game, it's going to be cheaper to use a full blown computer in a NAS then the stripped down computers currently being used. This would be what logitec/slmidevices would be working against. A time table where their NAS product (if they came out w/one) would essentially become more expensive then a real PC. So should logitec/slimdevices build a NAS that runs squeezecenter?: Well, I would say the success of such a box would be marginal at best. It would have to run linux and be nearly as powerful as a PC for the above reasons. It would have to be closed and secure as possible to prevent accidental or malicious alterations that would render it a brick. And it would have to be field upgradeable w.r.t. squeezecenter at the very least. Something of a paradox when you're also talking security. All this would have to come to market and be sold in enough volume to recover the OTEF as well as turn a profit before the above time table runs out. I am sure the real question you want to ask to propel logitec/slimdevices into building this box is: How many of you are there and how much are you willing to pay? Just my guesses but how does 1,000 buyers @ $1,000 per box or 10,000 buyers @ $500 per box sound. At those prices, I'll stick to my PCs. ...it'll be a close call. -- st2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ st2000's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11717 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
