I'm a non-technical lurker..

As i've mentioned before, at $99 + BBA, the dreamcast is one of the
cheapest Broadband/web surfing systems out there (+ the key board)....

If you had a large home with many TV sets spread about, and an in home
network, the DC would make a great mini-work station, say in the
kitchen or some rarely used part of the basement, or a guest room.

A cheap way to browse the web, telnet to read mail (we all read mail
in a shell right?), and play some CD's.


Returning to Lurker Mode...

/hawk 

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:14:41AM -0800, Richard K wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 daniele@ncssm.edu wrote:
> 
> > So, what other uses can this be put to?  Geek coolness is well and good, but
> > I'd probably end up putting the $150 toward a nicer next computer upgrade,
> > which is currently looking expensive...
> 
> How well that $150 is spent is really more a function of what you
> choose to do with it...  If you want to run it like you would a PC,
> say like the DNS server or firewall or something else on it, then I
> would think that money would be better spent somewhere else -- like
> on a really cheap PC.  
> 
> The value (in my opinion) of the Dreamcast goes something like this:
> 1.  It has good audio (I hate PC audio anyways; too much noise)
> 2.  It has good video (+TV out)
> 3.  It has a CDROM
> 4.  It's small and wouldn't particularly intrude on an entertainment
>     system setting
> 
> Basically, if you're not really trying to take advantage of these 
> points, lets face it, you're better off just buying a cheap PC.  On
> the other hand, if you're trying to get a PC which has this kind of
> form factor while also having good A/V capabilities and a CDROM,
> you're going to wind up spending a lot more money, and the DC might 
> be a better alternative.  
> 
> Again, this is just strictly my opinion on the matter.  What I would
> like to use my DC for would be:
> 
> -What it was originally intended to do -- GAMES!  I bought my DC
>  yesterday and the first thing I'm going to do is drop DreamSNES on
>  it.
> -MP3 player
> -Video player
> -Browser
> -System monitor/remote terminal
> 
> 
> I do have one question though...  How fast can the DC+BBA really move?
> I would like to be able to play mp3's and video files which are
> stored remotely, but I'm guessing there's going to be some compromise
> between how much you can push through to the DC, and how much
> compression the DC is going to be able to handle...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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