My experience with vortexbox is that it works really good. But the version that I used was unable to use a musiclibrary on a usb-disk, without serious Linux-knowledge. That may have changed since then.
I recommend just installing SBS on the vista you have and see how it does. If it performs overly well try adjusting the power options, ecreasing performance, will save power. Find the right balance. If it runs badly on the vista, you sure can pull some extra power out of the hardware be installing vortexbox instead. For me, Windows XP, without a running anti-virus does the trick, on really low-speck hardware. But that is ofcourse risky, if you doen't implement security elsewhere. My server is some old pentium three or four running 800 mhz with just 384 mb RAM. But my music collection is much smaller than yours. So obviously your experience will differ from mine. Bottom line: The laptop you have will suffice for musicserver. Just find the right software configuration for it. -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad (Yes I know most phones have more cpu-power these days, but it gets the job done). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79290 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
