Forum Overview :: American McGee's Honda Civic :: Re: Do you even need the PC?

[quote name="blackwater"][quote name="Brody Wilder"]How about a nice 4K smart TV, and as many cheap 4TB USB drives as it takes? Anything the TV won't play can be converted to a format it will, even if the conversion process entails downloading it again.[/quote] I don't want to re-download something I already have. Converting video formats takes a huge amount of time as well, if I wanted to go that route. [quote name="Brody Wilder"]I'm planning to replace my desktop with a <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-desktop-kit/">Raspberry Pi 4</a>, once the models with 4GB RAM become available (was August, now September). The energy savings alone should pay for it.[/quote] I'm pretty sure that the Raspberry Pi doesn't have a good enough CPU to play most video formats. I'm not interested in dealing with stuttering video. It would be nice to have something with lower power consumption, but I doubt it's going to be an ARM server. They just haven't made it far enough into the mainstream yet.[/quote]