I've had my SqueezeBox for only a few weeks and am currently running SlimServer on a laptop. I plan to buy a dedicated server to run the SlimServer.
My goal is to find or put together a box that is quiet and doesn't produce a lot of heat. I expect to use EAC on my laptop to do the ripping so it doesn't need to have any more grunt than is required to run SlimServer. I'm planning on having the server hidden away and accessing it remotely via something like VNC. My plan at the moment is to get a Mac mini and an external USB or Firewire drive. I haven't any experience with Mac OS X but thought I'd give this a go first, if it proves unsuited I would switch it over to Linux. I expect that it would be possible to put together a X86 box that would be competitive in price and specs if one had a good knowledge of what hardware is available but I don't. The few prebuilt compact and quite X86 boxes that I have come across seem wildly overpriced in comparison to the Mac mini. I'd be very interested to hear suggestions on alternative hardware. -- Paul Runyan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
