shvejk Wrote: > Keep in mind that any 'old' laptop or pc (including e-Vectra) is likely > to support only USB 1.1 > Not great if you plan to use external USB drive. True.
My laptop has an 80 GB hard disk in it, courtesy of a eBay site in the states that sold me a slide-in hard disk enclosure, and an 80 GB 2.5" hard disk. If your needs are modest, that'll work. I put 8500 mp3s at 320Kb CBR on it, and they sound fine. I could probably shoehorn 9000 in, but that'd be about the limit. Then I plan to upgrade the HD that's actually in the beast to an 80 also. Take off about 10 for the O/S, Slim itself, and I should have about 150GB free. About 15,000 songs. After that, I'll have to sort out how to do USB better. Or not. :-) Maybe some better solution will come along by then. If you plan to leave a laptop running 24/7, make really really really sure your fans work. Or get one of those fan pads that sits under the laptop and cools it some more. And back it up. Because they do have shortened lifetimes compared to desktops. And some day it will die. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19781 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
