On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 20:57 -0700, Jack Coates wrote: > Pat Farrell wrote: > >Or a decent SFF chasis. > > > 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.
Panel, mouse and keyboard part is 100% right. They tend to be noiser because gamers like P4-3400 CPUs and killer 6800 video cards which have to have wicked fans. If you didn't need screaming speed, you could get it a lot quieter than the game dudes. And in a club, who's gonna hear a little fan noise? > 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 :) That doesn't take the wacko 3D gamer video, any decent card can do that, most big projectors aren't more than 1024x... Beside, you don't expect people to look at the videos rather than the hot chick or guy on the floor, do you? If laptops are wanted for the display and IO, then I'd look at big "desktop replacement" laptops, probably used from IBM or other major vendor. Even a Centrino 1.5mHz is way fast enough to Slimserver and a few other toys for eye candy. A grand worth of used laptop can buy an impressive system. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
