I'm usinh a 1,2 ghz via-epia with 1 gB of ram running linux this works fine, Have not noticed any slugishness with my iPad , maybe album art would not be there imidietly but the interface is never unresponsive or freezing but i' m upgrading anyway.
The old generation via cpu is a little weak in the fpu area even if it has one, so lame transcoding can use all cpu and sox transcoding 24/96 to 24/48 runs circa40% cpu. So I'm going to the new via nano or dual core atom. Note that during this time my music collection has gone from 1000 albums to 2500 albums 30000 files. and I've found a method to rip dvda so I have circa 1500 hirez files And from one SB3 to SB3, Touch ,Boom , and Radio and one controller and one iPad. these never color graphic players use more server resources than the old ones. But from an 1,2 ghz linux driven via- epia c7 or better it should work. Less resources and you will sacrife not only performance but also functions such as transcoding of AAC radio streams for you SB3 or Boom. So the non x86 like solutions that some uses will not run any transcoding and may not run resource intensive plugins either. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85589 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
