That thing's system tray has more stuff running than my desktop. That can't be efficient for something meant to play media.
Honestly though, without anyone exploding over this...
What the heck do you do with these things? If it's supposed to be a media player, then what is Windows 7 doing on there? Wouldn't something more lightweight suit it? I guess you can use the browser, but in the age of smart-phones with browsers suited to small screens and fingers, I can't see desktop Firefox scaled down to a 5ish inch screen being the best way to go. If you want to run some kind of full application, what would it be?
Heh, just to play devil's advocate here, but isn't it easier/cheaper to just get a couple high capacity SD cards instead of lugging this thing around with you? I mean, they are super tiny compared to something like this and they don't need to be kept charged. Besides, if you start dumping all your RAWS onto the thing you'll have no space for the videos that need the weird codecs to play :)
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That thing's system tray has more stuff running than my desktop. That can't be efficient for something meant to play media.
Honestly though, without anyone exploding over this...
What the heck do you do with these things? If it's supposed to be a media player, then what is Windows 7 doing on there? Wouldn't something more lightweight suit it? I guess you can use the browser, but in the age of smart-phones with browsers suited to small screens and fingers, I can't see desktop Firefox scaled down to a 5ish inch screen being the best way to go. If you want to run some kind of full application, what would it be?
@Atkins
Heh, just to play devil's advocate here, but isn't it easier/cheaper to just get a couple high capacity SD cards instead of lugging this thing around with you? I mean, they are super tiny compared to something like this and they don't need to be kept charged. Besides, if you start dumping all your RAWS onto the thing you'll have no space for the videos that need the weird codecs to play :)