They're called 2-in-1s, however, you don't need one for that. Why not use an old Android Phone or even a tablet, that has a MicroSD card slot? An old phone can be free if you already have it, or nearly free if you're getting one used from FreeGeek or the Salvation Army. As long as the screen works and it has a microSD card slot.
Your benefit is that it's designed to power on quickly, and can be configured to launch an app on boot (I recommend PowerAmp and Tasker for that purpose), and a 64 GB MicroSD card is only $26 and is way more than enough to hold your current mp3 collection, and it's growth for the next few years as you copy your LPs to it, it's solid state so you won't lose your music due to car vibrations or the hard-power-down that it'll experience when the car is turned off, and it's much smaller with a way better interface to your music collection than a PC would have. But I agree with Michael, just get a new stereo that supports bluetooth, it's not much more expensive than the phone, still way cheaper than the laptop, and -far- more useful. Pleasantly, Ronald Bynoe On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you call the kind of portable computer where the screen can be > swiveled around and folded so that you're holding it the way you'd hold > a tablet? I thought I'd seen the designation netbook applied to them, > but the ones I've looked up don't offer the feature that makes it kind > of like a tablet. > > My objective is to have a device that uses a decent sized hard drive so > I can put my entire music collection on it and be able to leave it > running in the car, connected to my car's stereo Aux port, but not > requiring that it be kept open like a laptop. > > The tablets I've seen don't have the local storage capacity I want. I > currently have about 28 GB of MP3 files. But I have about six feet of > LPs that, one of these days, I'll get around to copying to MP3s. So, a > 250 GB drive or better would be good. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
