Hi guys, before you jump in and buy yourself PDA's to control SS I think you should know about my experience.
I run a DELL X50v with true VGA driver. My SS is running on a linux distro. Firstly Go the vga PDA's if you are even for a second thinking about using the web interface. Secondly I have a little bit of an issue with the web interface when running on Windows Mobile 2003. Every time the right-hand frame refreshes the *play now* command is resent to my SS thus making the song restart after every refresh. I hadn't piped up about this because I didn't think there were many of us out there. - Solution - Turn the PDA off or close IE when not actively searching / compiling playlists. Battery Life - On my X50v with VGA & wireless on I get about 4 hours with the standard battery & 7hrs with the extended battery. If you are really keen on this whole concept go the cradle option Jim Dibb recommends. But hey, you are only likely to use it for a fraction of your listening time A word on Telcanto... As far as I am aware this is a Windows Only serverside product (I think) so it rules it out for us *nix SS users. As far as CPU & res go... When viewing via the web interface the bottle neck in my opinion is the interpellation of the TCP/IP stack via 802.11b. Which means, faster CUP means faster processing which means faster browsing. As far as res goes, I like the true VGA but if you wear glasses or have less than 20 20 vision you are going to cry after a day or so. Bottom line is, I have no experience with Telcanto - it might be great (even at low res) Maybe a different skin (other than Default2) will solve my WM2003 IE browser issue Consider the battery time / docking options when looking at PPC's Hope that sheds a little more light on things for you.. Dave -- davegerke _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
