gb115b;195318 Wrote: > had a look at the pepperpad...looks pricey (and the battery life is only > 2-4 hours??) > > basically i just want a sonos style remote... > > and slimfx on a portable device seems the best option.. > > any other good combos ro achieve this?
I have had the Pepper Pad 3 for two weeks now. Just installed the Keeper 3.2 beta update day bofore yesterday which enhanced it still further, unfortunately, still no FLASH 9, but this is upgradeable by a maunuel method, which I plan to do later this week. Anyway, I love this device! The new keeper update ( keeper is the name pepper uses for the gui) included remote desktop built in so I can remote into my musicserver to check things which is pretty cool. The touch and noika 770 skins run great on it and it makes a fantastic remote for slimserver. It also has a built in universal remote program which the keeper update just enhanced with macro capability. It has a built in ir blaster, took me 30 secs (no joke) to get it set up to run my jvc reciever, tivo, samsung dvd player, and samsung vcr, and sony tv. The macros are really cool, now just pick "watch vcr" and the macros do the rest. It has a video player built in. I convert dvd's to avi files, put on the pepper, and have a mini stereo theater. The music player built in tunes in any interet radio stations. Also, it works as a remote stream from the slimserver!! There is a picture viewer which will see, import from, and over wifi show slideshows of any pics on a pc running wm 11. When it is charging, I use it as a digital picture frame running a slideshow of pics from one of my pcs. The email program kinda sucks. But after learning a little linux and learning from the forum and wiki, I installed thunderbird and have full imap email on my pepper. And of course that leaves internet browsing which is what it is made for. Tabbed browsers, very fast, nearly instant on from standby, connects to my wifi in about 10 sec from standby. Anyway, guess you can see that I kind like my pepperpad. For the price, it is expensive for a remote, but to me it replaces a computer with a device that is far more handy and efficient than a laptop. I have a tablet pc and it is bulky, runs hot, has limited battery life, is slow slow slow slow to boot and slow to come back from standby and I have quit using it! As to battery life on the pp3, I can do hours of heavy surfing and it is still as 30-40% battery life. Also, the battery "gauge" gives battery life in time remaining and % which I really like. It goes into a standby mode within a few minutes which it can stay in for days without charging from which it wakes in about 10 seconds so battery life has thus far not been a problem for me. -dale -- shadowboxer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shadowboxer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8302 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34482 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
