Personally I reckon the argument should start with what hardware you own and can repurpose.
When I killed my Pogoplug (which with 7.6 I had no performance concerns with).... I remembered that I had an EEE PC 701 with a Celeron M and 1GB RAM and an nlited XP install. This is more than powerful for running Squeezebox server with spotify, music ip, custom browse, dynamic playlists, spicefly sugarcube and a few more plugins. When the solid state drive on this dies I am getting a laptop from my sister with a broken display and I'll use that probably with Debian or vortexbox. It's all reasonably power efficient and I haven't wasted money on extra hardware. Oh my tunes are stored on a 2.5" portable hard disk so no extra power is required. -- fairyliquidizer "O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion." -Robert Burns- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fairyliquidizer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3678 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87968 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
