thx for the response, allow me to clarify some things i guess i was unclear on:
snarlydwarf;218448 Wrote: > 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) i disagree with all that. no moving parts would be required. no hard drive or normal atx style keyboard either. this isn't a home PC i'm proposing, its a solid state device built with a specific use in mind. (flash, volatile and non-volatile memory, etc) tomshardware and lots of places show thumbusb keys that run linux and all kinds of stuff. the linux doesn't need to be run on full 'normal' amd/intel processors. just whatever the OS, SS, and SB would need. yes, there might be slightly more heat from slightly more processing power/ram needed, (and that increases power needs as well), but all that doesn't make this not feasible, and lets remember, this stuff gets MORE powerful and efficient everyday. there are similar products to what i'm describing out there, its not so radical what i'm proposing. snarlydwarf;218448 Wrote: > . Maintenance (security updates, software updates) seems to me a single function specific platform by SD could be updated by them. snarlydwarf;218448 Wrote: > . Flexibility (if you install a custom plugin, will it void the > hardware warranty when you brick it? Can you even install custom > plugins?) i don't see why not. you would have a linux OS that ran SS. so you could tinker with it in code just as you always did before, and i'm sure a webinterface for installing / uninstalling plugins could be developed, and may be what 7.0 has anyway. there is no traditional hard drive internal to the device i am proposing, but there is read/writeable data space in there via the flash memory or whatever they want to use (thats solid state). snarlydwarf;218448 Wrote: > . Higher cost for many people (ie, my server is also my router, file > server and web server). i don't follow you on this, can you explain? the device could map a drive to wherever your music was. snarlydwarf;218448 Wrote: > Is it? In this day and age where the Home NAS (ie, a dedicated server), > Personal Web Server and such are becoming more common? yes, i believe it is. just b/c those things are becoming more common, doesn't mean thats a good reason to offload SS from the SB device. snarlydwarf;218448 Wrote: > 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. thats not what i proposed. no din mounts, ever. (i understand din mounts to mean the pins like an IDE drive uses, yes?) a SB could have internal flash space, and/or a card reader, and firewire/usb/esata ports, whatever... the internal storage would only be for the device to use, for its functions. the ports and reader would be for your music, in whatever form you had it. bluetooth would then get the music to the car, in that example. the SB would still have traditional audio ports of course. snarlydwarf;218448 Wrote: > 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...) i agree, whatever i propose should meet the $300 pricepoint. i disagree what i propose would cost $1000. what would it cost? i can't say, BUT perhaps the increased manufacturing costs would be offset by lower development and support costs. i will say this... if what i proposed above was available today for $499, i'd buy it. i still agree though with you, hat $300 needs to be the mass market goal. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.4 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
