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Omeriah;266726 Wrote: > I mistakenly emphasized the point about energy savings and that's > probably not the meat of it. Simply put, I don't want to have to turn > my computer on all the time to listen to music. It's not convenient or > user friendly. My laptop sits in my office and my amps and speakers sit > in the living room. When I come downstairs on a Saturday morning, I want > to turn the amp on and start listening. I don't want to go into the > office, wait for boot up, etc. And if I'm upstairs in bed and want to > use my wireless controller to turn on the music, I don't want to have > to go downstairs to do it. Maybe that leans towards lazy, but I think > it leans more towards consumer friendly. You turn your amp on and you > start listening. I'm sure in 5 years, we'll look back on that request > and say, "uh, yeah, duh!" > > I am not saying that we should replace PCs with NASs. I agree, it is > "half a crippled PC" and so the PC has its place for certain things. > But in this case, it seems like an unnecessary middleman. But if one > buys an NAS for the benefit of sharing the files across the network, > then it seems like they should be sharable without any additional > hardware. > > All of that said, I will research Windows Home Server and try to reduce > my obsession with putting SC7 on an NAS. Oh I see... you need "wake on LAN"... that fixes the laziness thing! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
