Something I don't think got mentioned in this thread ... many of us owned a fat (or at least fatter than an SB) mp3 player - the Audiotron. While there were many reasons why it failed, it's fatness (and the consequent slowness by the time it got to market) was one of the reasons.
By having only the essential parts on the slim client and having the rest on more easily upgradeable server hardware, the slim approach takes advantage of your ability (or at least a geeks desire) to buy a new computer next year and get a faster client as well. It is clear this works less well for non-geeks. But even most of them can replace a laptop with a faster laptop or a desktop with a faster one, move the songs database over and install Slimserver. The parts about making SlimServer more modular are probably worth considering, so that geeks could run Slimserver on gumstix farms or multi-core processors or whatever architecture their heart desired. But that wouldn't be a mass-market feature. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
