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yap

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Asus Eee Box B202 with MC 12+
« on: January 25, 2009, 12:49:29 pm »
I have been using MC and Netremote in 4 zone configuration for couple of years and things work pretty good...but now the world is warming up and green revolution is on its way!!! I want to ditch my custom built HTPC and go with something small and low power ...I found Asus B202 in the UK for around £180 with 80GB HD and 1GB RAM...I plan to put 500GB HD with 2GB RAM.

Has any one tried Asus B202 with MC and Netremote...will Asus B202 support MC with couple of Zones playing simultaneously with Netremote and Girder as control??? or any suggestion of similar hardware to support MC??? my budget is around £300 max...(I use MC for only music ripped as wav files).

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Re: Asus Eee Box B202 with MC 12+
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2009, 01:59:21 pm »
Why not? It is just a 1.6 gig machine running XP home/Linux. I use a comparable Asus Eee PC901 that runs MC12 and MC13 pretty well: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=49218.msg338026#msg338026
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Re: Asus Eee Box B202 with MC 12+
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2009, 04:10:30 pm »
I thought these Intel Atom processors would not be able to handle multiple audio streaming...and thought they are good for browsing or light computing...

also don't know what sort of audio cards they use and quality of audio they output...
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Re: Asus Eee Box B202 with MC 12+
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2009, 10:03:30 pm »
Would you care to elaborate on your 4 zone uses?  I have, outside of a temporary use, never found a use for multiple zones in my daily listening.  This intrigues me and zones are definitely a great idea and vital to the ever powerful MC.
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Re: Asus Eee Box B202 with MC 12+
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2009, 01:52:52 am »
> Would you care to elaborate on your 4 zone uses?  I have, outside of a temporary use, never found a use for multiple zones
> in my daily listening.  This intrigues me and zones are definitely a great idea and vital to the ever powerful MC.

I'll chime in.  I use a single dedicated music PC for playback in 3 rooms.  I have 3 zones using 2 PCI soundcards and a USB audio device.  One zone plays in my home office where I work at a personal PC.  A second zone plays on my good stereo system in another room connected by a 25' analog cable.  The third zone plays on a Sony WEGA TV connected by the USB device (which forwards the digital audio via a dedicated wireless link.

When I'm in the office, I control the music PC using a KVM switch and my personal PCs keyboard, screen and mouse.  I can control the music PC from any room using a VNC client on a laptop, on my personal PC or on my wife's PC.

The music PC has a 1 TB WD green power drive with my music libraries.   It is simple and handy for my to maintain one library and one copy of my music files.

I'd like to see MC 13 become truly multi-user and distributed but my solution works for my needs.

---- low power alternatives
There are some good low power choices in regular Intel Core 2 duo or AMD X2 chips (40-50 watts idle power usage.)  If Intel starts making chipsets with a 45 nm process, ever lower power levels will be possible.  Couple that with S3 sleep states that get power usage to a 1 or 2 and a regular PC looks quite decent.

Silent PC review is a good reference for low power as well as quiet PC systems.

Bill

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Re: Asus Eee Box B202 with MC 12+
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2009, 06:33:07 am »
my 4 zones are made of ...ROOM1 - Linksys WMB54g , ROOM2 - Sondigo , ROOM3 - Azurewave AW-GA200, 4 - Virtual Audio Cable with Icecast to stream music to PDA while walking around the house!!

I guess no one has tried the Asus B202 or 204/206 yet...so I'll jump in and get one ...will report back on how it goes...
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Re: Asus Eee Box B202 with MC 12+
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2009, 10:26:08 am »
I have MC in 6 rooms as HTPCs -- so, instead of using a single box with zones, I just end up using a standalone box.  So in a way, I could use zones.  The problem is that I wouldn't get theater view for all the areas.  I would not be likely to desire built-in speakers, either, which would be about the only way I would find it extremely useful.  I always wanted to put a 15" touchscreen in the wall by the bar or something like that where people are likely to get up--not the living room with couches.  Or the garage.  Then, it would all be integrated into the wall and you could easily change the content by using your finger.  Of course this would allow for our entire media library--the beauty of this MC system.  All our music, of course, but also the ability to watch a movie even!  Right in the wall!  I had the idea of it mounted in the wall and then have a frame bezel that fits the display and covers up the oversized wall hole (to fit the screen in).  Sort of like a door that closes to secure it in.
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Asus Eee Box B202 with MC 12
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2009, 10:57:48 pm »
I am about to get the mini eee 700 from asus.  If you know what that is great, if not look it up it is a cool little cheep all flash drive laptop.
It runs Linux.
From what I have think I have found out putting a blue tooth gps unit on it should not be a problem. mapping software is a bit of a problem. But i am not worried about that.
My question is the best way to get the whereigo player to run on either a Linux machine or a Linux Machine running VMWare.
I have also read that the eee can run xp so that may be an option. But I do not want to go there.
I guess my question is to anyone out there. is a pocket pc or the new Garmin GPS the only way? Or can you get Linux to think it is a pocket pc or get whereigo to think it is on a pocket pc and not a laptop?
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