Pat Farrell wrote:
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 18:56 -0700, Jack Coates wrote:
...
Sounds like you might be letting a less-important consideration
(portability) interfere with a more important consideration (viability).
What's wrong with a decent laptop chassis (say a T41, $500-$1000 on
EBay) and a 100GB 7200 RPM internal drive ($300)?
Or a decent SFF chasis.
I'm not at all convinced that Michaelwagner has to have low spec.
The gaming dudes build SFF systems with the latest AMD or Pentiums, at
least a gig of ram, and multiple disks.
Compared to the rest of a DJ's setup (like PA speakers or turntables)
a SFF would be small and light and portable and as powerful as you want.
SFF's are nifty for the gamers because they have rocking video cards,
but they're bigger than a laptop, just as expensive as a laptop, lack
the integrated flat panel, mouse, and keyboard, and are typically
somewhat noisier.
However, that improved video card could be worth a lot to a DJ... I've
been in a couple of clubs in Vegas where they were playing XMMS or
ITunes visualizations on the big projector screens :)
--
Jack At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture!
"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin
so across the Western ocean I must wander" -- trad.
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