erland;645534 Wrote: > > Personally I can still not understand why anyone, enthusiast or mass > market user, would feel it's good to have their computer powered on > when listening to music, view video or picture in the living room. If > they felt it was good to have the computer powered on, why get another > hardware solution like Squeezebox/Revue, they could just use the > computer they already have.
I don't totally agree with you about people do not wanting a computer. Actually they don't want something looking like an ugly and noisy desktop computer, and they do not want to wait for it to power on. Recently, multimedia boxes were behaving more and more like a computer, and some computers started to look like more and more like a multimedia box. I installed for relatives a NetTop Asrock with remote and it is approaching something nice (Mac Mini is also good example) It is small, nice, silent, it can live nicely beside your TV, it starts really fast, you could easily think it is not a computer, but a nice multimedia box. With real mass market OS (Windows 7 or OSX) it can be a nice desktop computer if you want, with adequate software it can be a nice multimedia box with great choice of quality software and ease of maintenance. When money is not a problem, I see more and more people, technically aware or not going this route (when they start to try it, elder people often use a computer in a much more efficient and sensible way than geek usually think, and do themselves). -- nicolas75 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicolas75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89143 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
