Well, I'm bringing up this one issue because I see it as something Slim could possibly address in future releases, or should at least consider IMHO.
The hardware I'm using has been advertised as compatible, and acceptable according to both companies in a joint press release and on both of their home pages as I recall. I paid an extra $50 for an included wireless and I don't have a wired home. I'm not starting a poll or submitting a bug report or a web protest page, overall I'm a happy camper. I'm just saying based on my experience this is sometimes a problem, and here's a possible solution. Moore's law is still in effect and to continue to load everything on the server is a mistake IMHO. The real hole in the thin client setup is that chips keep getting faster, so basically all you end up doing is crippling increasingly powerful chips with a mainframe/terminal based approach. Sitting 2 feet from my Squeezebox is a Galaxymedia TVisto multi-media hard drive enclosure. It's fugly, there's no community forum that I know of, it doesn't have a network connection, but for less than the price of a Squeezebox you can get one with a 400GB hard drive and it has most of the same audio playback functionality with video as well, with no server at all. I don't consider it a replacement for the Squeezebox, but for the average user it's much more idiot-proof and if it had an led display it would be a viable competitor. I have a minor vested interest in Slim at this point and I'd like to see an open technology succeed as opposed to some proprietary soup from Redmond or Cupertino, but they really need to attack the performance problem from every angle. The other guys are going to throw hardware at the problem at every level, Slim's going to get buried by one of big boys if they're not careful. I don't want the Squeezebox to become some cumbersome beast, but it seems to me there's some low hanging fruit which could make the Squeezebox's UI more responsive, reduce network traffic, and server load. If that's not the case then so be it, it's just an idea, and I wanted to put it out here. -- sander ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sander's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10737 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
