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Without the computer hardware as well though

I see your point regarding the ability to a run stripped down version of Linux....

But I also see so much (typical PC) hardware gone from these boxes... USB bus, (Even the Rasberry Pi has 3 USB ports). {And we've seen the great amount of work that it would take to use a rasberry pi as even a browser}; No video card, or port, no PCI bus, no RAM slots, some have no HD bus, etc. etc. The "layman" isn't going to call a Roku a computer, a rasberry Pi a computer, a typical NAS drive a computer, or their microwave, etc.

What this is a way for people to illogically dismiss the efforts of high end manufacturers to re-design file playback devices with the principles of high performance audio, instead of many different software functions.

Being in computer maintenance and IT infrastructure for 26 years: I've seen a lot of variances in hardware design and function.


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For entertainment they watch his body twist
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Edits: 06/17/15 06/17/15
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