help and opinions needed

[cyko]

My current system is a 1.2gP3 with 2g ddr ram and two HD 1 40g (system & windows HD) and one 250g(music Library) with a 15" IBM powdered USB touch screen monitor.  I have this boxed up in my garage since i moved to a new house in july. 

My personal desktop in in the process of being upgraded. so i'm going to take the 3.2 duel core and Mother board and 4g ram and use it as the new jukebox. 

Now with the popularity of all the small touch screen tablets (ipad clones), I was thinking it would be a portable screen that can be taken any where in the house and pick songs. 

The questions i have is exactly how should this be acapolished???   
The tablets have small hard drives, so i cant store the library on them. 
Should i buy a network drive and store the library on it and use the tablet to access it that way?
Do you think it will be too slow displaying the library in freebox running on the tablet? 
How do i have it connect to the audio reciever?
Or have the tablet be a remote desktop, for running the jukebox PC? 

[Barcrest]

Remote desktop, those tablets are way underpowered and you would do well to find one running windows.

[cyko]

barcrest any chance on developing freebox as an android app?  Most of the less expensive tablets are android based. 

I might also be able to find a hack for a tablet to install tiny xp

[cyko]

or a third option, my sister has an Hp Pavilion touch screen laptop, that has a fried motherboard, she is giving it to me.  Once i get it in the mail that might be the easist way.

But how to connect it to the audio receiver?   

[Barcrest]

Just use VNVC (Remote Desktop) on your android tablet and connect to a pc. You can control the music that way and the PC does the music and grunt work.

[lockers90]

hi

what a great idea.

personally i think you would be better doing a RDC, however instead of connecting through your internet and router simply connect the tablet and pc with a physical ethernet connecton. this would provide more speed and stability. you would obviously need to find a tablet with a rj-45 port.

i dont know if you have tried one of these tablets yet but i have and i can see only one problem with your idea. that is that the graphics on these tablets are extremely slugish and to get the remote desktop to run to a decent standard you would need to get one of the dual core tablets these are selling on ebay for around £150 for 7inch screen or around £200 for the 10inch screen.

none have their own graphics card so use the power of the cpu to render graphics that generally why the uni cores render poorly.

hope this helps

if you need any advice in setting up the RDC through a physical pc-pc connection please dont hesitate to ask

regards

adam

[cyko]

thanks..
   i have my sisters laptop here that is a HP tx1320us.  I'm going to troubleshoot it.. and see if i can find a mother board

[cyko]

ok update.  I fixed the HP tx1000 laptop.  The problem was that the GPU heats up and unsolders itself.  So i took it apart and heated the chip with a heat gun, put new thermal grease and a penny (makeshift heatsink) on the chip, and reassembled.  To my surprise it works fine. 

So now i have a touch screen laptop.
specs: AMD Turion 64 duel-core 1.9GHz
2gigs 667MHz DDR2 RAM
320gig Hard Drive
12" touch screen that can rotate to a tablet.

I've been doing a lot of searching and i guess that there is no audio receiver that connect to a home network.  So i'm thinking about using my PS3.  I havent done any testing yet but how will freebox play with the PS3?  I know windows media player will play.  Or do i still just do the remote desktop with the PS3?  I'm open to any other suggestions.  I've ruled out having a dedicated PC running just to remote connect to

[d78]

I put a free VNC app on my ipad and use it to control the juke pc from anywhere in wi-fi range. Works awesome. It's not too laggy. not even in full color mode. You could turn the settings down a bit in the vnc client/ipad to get more speed.