I use a retired laptop. Cheap, compact, battery backup, low power, sleep behaves, Wake On Lan works, wifi or wired, 1gig network, external USB drive sleeps and includes monitor, keyboard and mouse. Plenty fast for transcoding and rescans.
On the used market my retired laptop probably sells for $300.00 (Thinkpad T40p). The network drives work but their processors are usually slow and a few Windows specific features are not available. -- mswlogo Thinkpad XP SS > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF-COAX > Meridian 861V4 (Trifield, Room corrected, Upsampled) > DSP5500 Mains, DSP5500HC Center, DSP33 Rears ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36385 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
