I am looking for a new project, Currently I am using the OH's laptop for squeezecenter and a modded Wii for playing SD movies from a mybook world NAS using homebrew.
I want to get a nice low power silent device that I can have on all the time to host squeezecenter and then also have Boxee always running so its just a TV channel change away and then probably control it using the ipod touch app. I want to get away from using the OH's laptop as the fan is very loud and always seems to be starting up. I already have a of the shelf PVR so no real need for anything of this nature hence why i'm going the boxee route, I've only had a little play with it so far but they way it catalogues the movies and gives you extra info + trailer links is something i think is genius. I don't have a huge library at all, I have less than 3000 tracks all of which are MP3 at the moment and only 1 zone however I think I will have about 5 once I'm finished and they will always be synced so the machine needs to be capable of this. I may add another 4000 tracks in to the library but I have it separated at the moment as I just wouldn't listen to it a whole lot. I am not an audiophile at all so I am likely to be happy with 320kbps mp3's The box will also be used as a torrent box at night and will store all movies on so Id like at least 500gb on board but I accept for cost wise I may have to hook up some usb dicks. Raid would be a nice plus to ensure high availability and then will do backups off to USB drives / other NAS's I am thinking that I would be best to go for Ubuntu for reliability/getting the best from resources. I've not used it before but have done quite a bit of command line stuff on the mybookworld and am happy enough and I love a nice geeky challenge so ubuntu doesn't phase me. Options as I see them at the moment are, ASRock ION 330 A tranquil PC A decent Netbook. Fit-PC2 Acer Revo Asus Eee box I am thinking the first two are my better options seeing as I could get dual core and the ION chipset seems to get good reviews. I have to say the ASrock is probably favourite at the moment because of what's its offering for the money but am looking for some input from people with some experience. Stu -- trouty00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ trouty00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30875 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65555
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