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m1abrams;267267 Wrote: > Yes that is what I am saying! SC does much more than an ipod. An ipod > can NOT transcode on-the-fly. That alone is what makes the hardware > requirement high. that happens to be a feature i don't need... but again, u can specialize hardware, you don't have to use a general purpose CPU and then some OS and app to do this. if they can sell a transporter for over a 1000 they can sell a fat box for $400 (or whatever) that puts SS in the box. radish;267256 Wrote: > If you have a box as you describe do you not think it would take as long > to boot as a PC? thats not NECESSARILY true. again it depends on the HW. radish;267256 Wrote: > It would, so you either leave it on all the time or wait for it to boot. > No better off than you are now. at what point did i say i am concerned with power on times? radish;267256 Wrote: > I think the part you miss is what is needed to do what the SC can do. I > am not an audiophile btw, however I understand hardware rather well and > know what can and can not be done with current processing power. If > you make it small it will need active cooling, if you do not want > active cooling you will need to make it larger. Well you could make it > small but if someone jammed it into a small media rack chances are it > will fail quickly. i don't understand this negative defeatism. i do not believe that a chip designed to transcode on the fly would need active cooling. i do not believe that a device that could boot and run off of internal flash memory (think embedded SD type card) along with specialized cpus for its tasks and so on is so impossible. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.5 (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=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
