TheLastMan;614946 Wrote: > > Ideally it should have an Intel x86 processor, a simple Linux interface > and a single 1TB hard drive. Price it at under $300 / £200 and you would > have a real winner - esp if marketed in a bundle with the Touch. The > Vortexbox is nearly there, but it needs to be sold and supported by > Logitech if you are going to get most retailers and customers to buy > it. > Would any of your non-technical non audiophile friends or relatives who don't own a Squeezebox today pay $299 for a Touch plus $299 for a 1TB server box ?
IMHO, the solution with the Touch which have a built-in server is the best solution if they want to target the non-technical non geeky users and local music, two boxes means two CPU's duplicate memory and thus makes the solution too expensive. Honestly, I'm not sure any of my non geeky friends would even get a $299 device with working built-in server. I think the Radio together with mysqueezebox.com is the best option available for the mass market, it has the right price and can with mysqueezebox.com be used for online music without a local server. It just needs mysqueezebox.com to be a bit more reliable than it has been during the last years. A separate server box gets more interesting when we start to talk about a multi room solution, but then we are back on the geeky side again. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'donations are always appreciated' (http://erland.isaksson.info/donate)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85982
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