MrSinatra;218421 Wrote: > > the advantages of a fat device are legion:
You have left out disadvantages: . More heat . More noise . Lots more moving parts moved into custom-repair (when a pc breaks you have a huge range of choices on how to fix it with commodity parts from fans and drives to motherboards) . Maintenance (security updates, software updates) . Flexibility (if you install a custom plugin, will it void the hardware warranty when you brick it? Can you even install custom plugins?) . Higher cost for many people (ie, my server is also my router, file server and web server). > > i'm sorry, but to me, having a device that needs me to run stuff on my > computer is old school. yes, SN is a good workaround, for everything > EXCEPT your own local music. (SN basically emulates the fat device i > am talking about, but doesn't do your local tunes AND requires the > internet) Is it? In this day and age where the Home NAS (ie, a dedicated server), Personal Web Server and such are becoming more common? > > wouldn't it be cool if you could just grab your fat SB, an ext drive, > and jump in your car and road trip with it via bluetooth to your car > stereo? Only if it had a DIN mount, at which point I would just leave it in the car and sync wirelessly every night.... Hard drives are cheap, no reason to drag one back and forth. > > and i think the SB needs a bigger color screen, as well as a > rechargable remote that has a color screen on it, and a headphone jack > and bluetooth for headsets. > > based on what logitech offers i think everything i am talking about is > reasonable and doable, and in line with their consumer friendly POV. Not at the $300 price point, and to be honest, the higher the price point, the lower the sales. Your wish list would run to at least $1000 and quite likely more considering smaller volume builds. A cheap laptop would do just as much and more for less. (Though laptop repair is troublesome, too...) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
