Using a Laptop as dedicated source

[Sparky191]

I was wondering how people have laptops set up to use as dedicated source to amp and speakers?

I was thinking that setting up the music on a flash disk as a cache and keeping the laptop with no battery would be the way to go? Or with a lot of ram say 2GB would it really matter?

[joe_cool]

I got about 35GB of music on my "dedicated"source". I don't think it will fit on a "flash disk". Maybe a small external hard drive?

[bigshot]

I use my Macbook for both audio and video. It resolves 5:1 DTS and plays just about every DVD I throw at it (PAL, NTSC). It's also great to have iTunes and a terrabyte of hard drive space full of music and video.

See ya
Steve

[Sparky191]

I've a mix of 2.5 and 3.5 external hard disks for my music. But it just seems that if you had a large cache the HD wouldn't be accessed that much and thus not need to power up very often and would be very energy efficient.