Topic: Playback computer setup

[pigiron]

Just ran across this, thought it might help your quest (out of stock though)...

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5305482907.html

A $60 MB is pretty damn cheap when it includes the processor... hell, I'm currently building a C7 system and paid over twice that for a microATX board.

EDIT: completely forgot about the $200 "WalMart" PC... http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7754614... made a splash in the linux world... but keeps selling out. Available with windoze at a higher price (or course).

Not recommending anything... just throwing out options to confuse you 

[it-goes-to-eleven]

EDIT: completely forgot about the $200 "WalMart" PC...

Fwiw... I bought one of those $200 wally PCs a Long time ago - back around 2001/2002. It was a via CPU and chipset. I whacked the linspire or whatever it was and installed gentoo.  I tossed the slow VIA cpu and put a cheap & fast celeron in...  Decent system until I noticed and eventually tracked down the on-board ATA controller DMA corruption problem. Other folks reported the same problem.

While I don't have hugely negative feelings about the system, when I consider the amount of time I spent tracking down that f'n DMA problem, that $200 machine was a bust.  I'd wager that they knew about the problem and that's why they were $200 systems.  No doubt the new systems are completely different and don't have the problem... I'd rather start with a good case with 120mm fans that can take 5-10 drives.

[Jammin72]

Just a quick pop in to say if you're going to use Linux I would take a peek at Amarok.  If Windows... MediaMonkey.


Enjoy the new rig.  It has changed the way I listen.

[STRAWMAN]

Enjoy the new rig.  It has changed the way I listen.

Same here, a positive life decision