On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/22/2015 11:21 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:28:05AM -0800, Dick Steffens wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Consider upgrading your car radio to one that supports Bluetooth. > > It already does, but that's tied up with the phone. But there's a stereo > mini jack on it, right up front, that I can use with a cable between it > and the headphone jack on the computer. > > > Then get a tablet with an SD card slot and you'll be home free in less > > space > > Last time I checked, which was before just now, SD cards only went to 32 > GB, and I known I want more than that without having to swap them out. > But now I see that there are ones that can go to 2 TB. Of course, that > would mean finding a tablet that supports the recent SDXC standard. > All current and previous generation Android devices support SDXC, and yeah, you can get 64 GB cheap, and each year the next size gets cheaper. For Black Friday this year, 128 GB MicroSD cards were only $45, next year 256 GB ones will be priced under $50, and likely soon multi-terrabyte ones will be in the reasonable price range as well, probably at a pace which outstrips your LP ripping process. > > > with longer battery life. > > I'm prepared to us a car charger if necessary. > Okay, but a car charger won't charge a laptop, it'll run it, but the battery won't increase in charge very quickly, that giant display, the spinning rust, and the super-fast GPU and CPU all eat a lot of power. Your average laptop battery will go 4-8 hours between charges, a cell phone in airplane mode will last weeks. A laptop when your car is on will charge very slowly, if at all, at which point you may have a dead laptop battery for your drive home, and any small bump to your inverter will make you wait for Linux to reboot, potentially interactively. With a cell phone, you just need a USB port (so it won't even consume your entire accessory port most likely, most accessory USB plugs have multiple ports), it'll charge over the course of your drive, and sit there idling for you while sipping power. Also, an Android phone with minimal apps installed will boot up many times faster than a laptop will. And, there's the issue of parking your car at the grocery store or theater. A phone could be tossed into your glove box if you're concerned about it being stolen. A laptop is much harder to hide. A laptop is also a more expensive device, and more likely to present a target to a would-be-thief. The phone can attach to your aux audio input, or to your car's bluetooth, and it can do so way better than Windows or Linux will (I can skip songs from my steering wheel on my phone via bluetooth, while reading the artist name and song title, I have a feeling Amarok might not be quite as functional for car bluetooth players). > > Thanks for the ideas. > Oh, and of course with a phone, it has GPS, and wifi, and could be used to attach to your home wifi when you come home, with a gpx file ftp'd over to your desktop of your speed and location during your drive, or since it has Maps anyway (or you can download Waze), you can use it for navigation without tying up your phone for that too! And of course, cell phone mounts for cars are a dime a dozen, a laptop mount would be much more involved considering their size and weight, and much more likely to interfere with the proper functioning of your air bags. Okay, I promise, I'm done now. (: > > > -- > 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
