On 09/04/2012 13:54, Arny Krueger wrote:
"Jim wrote in message


Are you aware of the architecture of that new and highly popular class of
machine called the "Tablet"? ;-)

Most can be interfaced to home equipment for AV, both audio and video. Some
of the interfaces are pure digital for highest quality.

So much for machines with low inherent noise being niche machines!


Good point, but not enough storage, slowish processors and I'm not sure
how Android would cope with serving 1TB of data. The storage would be a
problem for me, and it would either need to be networked/remote (which I
don't have permanently) or tethered to HDs (which would be messy).
Interesting though.

My experience is that most people simply assume their choice of
home 'PC' or laptop should play music for them. And makers of laptops,
etc,
often make a 'feature' of the sound system in their adverts, etc, even
when
you can also hear fan and HD noises. Some ads may tell you about all the
wonderful 'surround' and 'enhanced' effects, but somehow don't seem to
have
space to say "accompanied by fan whir and HD clatter". ;-

Please see the OP from Mr. Lesurf that contains the phrase almost "no-One".

The relevant fact is are that we have a highly popular class of highly
capable machine, that it seems like almost everybody I know has, that lacks
fans and spinning hard drives.


I have an iPad, cough splutter. Good at what it does, but I wouldn't
want it as the main device unless it stored media. Although I agree that
could change if I had networked storage. As it is I can use it to
connect to and control the Mac Mini, which contains all my media files.

Best confined to reading the paper, books, Planets, film reviews and
email checking, for now.

Tablet make very nice music players and they are easy to interface with home
systems a number of different ways.

If their system resources come up short, then you can move on to Netbooks.

If that comes up short, then a person such as would post to this forum can
easily acquire the parts to economically build a real AV monster!

Seems like a reasonable selection of popular, workable solutions...


Apart from the noise . . .

Rob