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After browsing the machines at www.mini-itx.com, I became inspired to research building a mini form factor computer to run software synthesizers for music production. Ideally, the machine would be built into one of those retro portable TV things, replacing the crappy screen with a small LCD. Alternatively, I could purchase a large MIDI keyboard and build the computer into that. That would save even more space on the desktop, only requiring a thin monitor for the software.
Doing a bit more research, I learned of the beauty of CF -> IDE adaptors! I long for the day when hard drives become extinct and high capacity solid state memory is the standard. My dilemna is that high capacity CF cards (<2gb) are at least $100 more than a hard drive with 10x the capacity. However, capacity will not me much of an issue with this machine, since it will only be using a minimal installation of XP, a .vst host application, and the instruments themselves.
Is sacrificing money/capacity worth using a CF as a system drive? Is this feasable? Thanks!
Doing a bit more research, I learned of the beauty of CF -> IDE adaptors! I long for the day when hard drives become extinct and high capacity solid state memory is the standard. My dilemna is that high capacity CF cards (<2gb) are at least $100 more than a hard drive with 10x the capacity. However, capacity will not me much of an issue with this machine, since it will only be using a minimal installation of XP, a .vst host application, and the instruments themselves.
Is sacrificing money/capacity worth using a CF as a system drive? Is this feasable? Thanks!