Will do. I am going to keep looking this weekend. I think alot of software is geared around accessing local drives and not network drives. This is fine but my current home server was only designed to store and balance media. Its atom processor and lack of video makes it useless to transcode so until i get a new server built, i wanted to use a faster machine (laptop) and just access the network shares.
I'm still running 802.11G with no issues. Keep in mind, that on the transcoding side, the video card isn't as important as the processor if you decide to go the media server route. Since the PC is simply re-encoding frames of video, without actually outputting it to a display but rather sending it over a network to another device that handles the graphic output, it eats up CPU cycles very quickly. So the MB chipset and processor are more important if it's only a media server. Now if you also want to game on the PC, that's a whole different story graphics wise. Unless you just enjoy the building process, PC's are so cheap pre-built now you could just order one and have plug n play as quick as you can move your library over.
