nicketynick Wrote: > Looking forward, how much longer until you can get a handheld/PDA/phone > with the horsepower to run a 'Slimserver' on its own? eg. a PDA with > 100GB of storage (HDD or Flash?) No need for a PC or Mac at all - just > the PDA that can act as a really nice 'remote' in your main listening > area. > I'm thinking it shouldn't be long, but am I missing something > fundamental here? Depends what you mean by long ...
I suspect it won't be long, a year or two, until you can get PDAs with 100 or so MB RAM to run the slim server. A bigger problem is the 100GB HD. Not just that it's not small (even a 2.5" one is going to add 1/2" in thickness to any PDA you build it into), but it needs a sizeable battery to spin it and a fan to cool it (or clever case design to bring the heat to the outside of the case). I think you're more likely to see a PDA to control the slimserver and a slug (or slug-like next generation thing) to actually run slimserver on. The PDA is portable, the slug sits in a corner somewhere. That you can do now. The Nokia 770 project that is being worked on is a wireless PDA that can control the slimserver, and you could put a slug in the corner in, I bet, a year from now. You could put a Buffalo linkstation in the corner now today. -- 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
