slimkid;196805 Wrote: > Without getting into all the features, just checking on thier price > list: > > Olive MUSICA 160 GB - $1099 > Olive MUSICA 250 GB - $1499 > > The most expensice 90 GB I have ever seen (in the last 5 years).
Geez, for those prices you can make a wicked fast server with 500 GB of storage. It will be able to do other tasks as well, plus it's far more flexible. There are lots of people running down the Slim architecture lately, but IMHO it's their greatest strength. Take advantage of relatively cheap mass-market computer hardware! Computer hardware will always be cheaper than specialized "audiophile" hardware, and with SlimServer/Squeezebox the audio playback hardware is in the player where it belongs. The Olive Musica is apparently a low-power, inflexible PC running Linux with local storage. I guess a lot of people like this? That's not a more advanced product, just a less flexible and substantially more expensive one. Also the Olive Musica is nothing new - it's been out for ~3 years. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34696 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
