I would go with the cheapest PC I could find and install Ubuntu on it. The problem with cheap PCs is that they're noisy.
As a point of reference, my "production" SlimServer machine is my daily desktop, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 GB RAM, with a 250 GB 7200 RPM IDE HDD as a music library, plus another 250 GB 7200 RPM IDE HDD in a USB enclosure as a backup. Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit. Massive overkill, yes. But it does come in handy for encoding, FLAC -8 and MP3 -V6 in under 30 seconds per track! And obviously SS is super-responsive. My "testing" SqueezeCenter machine I bought because it was cheap and I needed a secondary PC for other purposes. AMD Duron 1.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM. Ubuntu 7.10 32-bit. It's using the music library from the production machine. Still seamlessly responsive, even rescans of my 4500 tracks take 8 minutes across the network! Much noisier than the production machine, which is the main downfall of cheap computer hardware. Your suggestion should work fine, even the 1 GB of memory (but only on XP). Before this I was running SS on XP and I only had 512 MB of RAM, but it ran SS and all my other daily desktop tasks without issue. 1 GB would be fine. Even now, I rarely get above 1 GB memory usage, I'm at 587.4 MB and that's with 6 programs running in addition to all the background processes and SS. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40006 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
