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MrSinatra;267464 Wrote: > > sarcasm, the last refuge... > the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded? I am not sure how Dostoevsky fits into this.... > > if tivo can sell me their unti for $400 and it has storage and can > handle TV (which is much higher bw) and etc... surely slim and > logitech could do a fat box. Because last I checked, the database needs for even 100 TV shows saved on your TIVO is a lot less than the database needs for 20000 or more songs. > > i really don't understand the hostility to the suggestion. Because people who have actually priced the components needed know the real costs. A NAS box is going to run to $400 or more if you give it anywhere near the CPU needed to run a stripped down slimserver.... Add in the cost of the actual player portion, and you are talking pie-in-the-sky pricing. Sure, CPUs keep getting cheaper, but the demands placed on them get to be more, as well, and at the present, the typical NAS box does not have the performance most people would want. Why do you think Logitech could make a NAS box with sufficient power cheaper than everyone else, in fact, for an incremental price change of $100 on the player... Not likely at all. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
