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<blockquote data-quote="xenon2000" data-source="post: 8845">Re: MP rocks, but is much slower than commercial counterpartGood comment, I thought that I had also made the point clear that I would rather MP not take 30% idle CPU usage on an AMD Athlon 2000, so that other apps can run better at the same time. I am probably beating the point to a pulp now, but it's kinda sad that people think that being cheap is the only reason to use old hardware. Personally, I wish they still produced new 500Mhz hardware to use just for Media serving, etc. Since they could probably make the hardware for dirt cheap. Then I could justify a digital frame in everyroom.Anyways, I only posted my long thread about my hardware and the cost of each to make the point that I spend money on the amount of power I need for each thing I do. It would be a waste for me to spend $1000 on a new laptop to just serve up images, music, and videos with wireless networking. It's obviously overkill for such simple tasks.I must again end my post with thanks to the people who work on MP and for those who actively discuss it's future and current hurdles. It's an amazing opensource project and I love it. After about 1 year now, it's come a long ways and I look forward to still using it and seeing it's progress. The merging between PC, Media, and the common TV (CRT, Plasma, projection, and LCD) is only going to become more and more popular and affordable in the next 5 years. And MP has great potential because of this.Thanks for the active discussion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="xenon2000, post: 8845"] [b]Re: MP rocks, but is much slower than commercial counterpart[/b] Good comment, I thought that I had also made the point clear that I would rather MP not take 30% idle CPU usage on an AMD Athlon 2000, so that other apps can run better at the same time. I am probably beating the point to a pulp now, but it's kinda sad that people think that being cheap is the only reason to use old hardware. Personally, I wish they still produced new 500Mhz hardware to use just for Media serving, etc. Since they could probably make the hardware for dirt cheap. Then I could justify a digital frame in everyroom. Anyways, I only posted my long thread about my hardware and the cost of each to make the point that I spend money on the amount of power I need for each thing I do. It would be a waste for me to spend $1000 on a new laptop to just serve up images, music, and videos with wireless networking. It's obviously overkill for such simple tasks. I must again end my post with thanks to the people who work on MP and for those who actively discuss it's future and current hurdles. It's an amazing opensource project and I love it. After about 1 year now, it's come a long ways and I look forward to still using it and seeing it's progress. The merging between PC, Media, and the common TV (CRT, Plasma, projection, and LCD) is only going to become more and more popular and affordable in the next 5 years. And MP has great potential because of this. Thanks for the active discussion. [/QUOTE]

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