Wanted to follow-up and say thanks again to everyone for all the great input. This really is a great forum.
Also, wanted to say that, after some more vigorous research and tearing my hair out going back-and-forth with different options and possibilities, I finally decided on a "server" solution that I'm pretty excited about. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101096 Ends up being a little pricier than I wanted, but I had the option of going with the model one step down with half the storage and RAM and without the optical drive for only $175 shipped (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101095) Was very pleased with these options as they saved some $s over the Vortexbox Appliance. I do lose out on HDD size and the CD-ripping ability, but I gain in processor power and RAM. A good tradeoff for me as my library is only 130 GBs and I don't see myself doubling it any time soon. Love that it's fanless. MUCH better option than looking at some of the old outdated Vostro desktops I thought. It also has Gigabit ethernet which the netbooks I was looking at did not. Another consideration was going with one of the barebones combos that included CPU/processor, and then just adding the HDD and RAM myself, but in the end I felt the savings weren't large enough to overcome the convenience and nice design of what I was getting. Thought I'd share for anybody else in the market in a similar situation. -- Howard Turkster ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Turkster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85420 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
