The Olive Symphony: The mega iPod for your stereo

I just read John Atkinson's write-up of this in the S'phile newsletter. We have three laptops and a wireless network in the house, but none of the computers is regularly located in the living room where the audio system is. Although I'd love to have a laptop by my listening spot and select songs from it, it's not a practical arrangement. Seems like the Olive might be a solution since it effectively moves the computer to the audio rack and let's me operate it by remote. But is the display large enough to read from across the room? Is it suitable for browsing my collection, as I would from a laptop? I donlt care about distributing music elsewhere in the house. Are there better solutions for my particular situation?

You might also look at the squeezebox 3 if you have a computer on all the time and a wireless network:

http://www.slimdevices.com/

That might work! They have a seminar on it at their headquarters near me tomorrow, so I'll go and check it out. Thanks.

Just got a pair of them in today... Nice looking--not 1/2" aluminum plate crowd nice, but OK for quasi-mass market stuff. I'll be interested in seeing how they look lit up and, more importantly, how they sound...

I called Olive. The "Musica," is the next model up from the one reviewed in the Stereophile newsletter. It has a 160 GB hard drive, but doesn't have the Classical Software for auto cataloging your recordings. I also asked about adding hard drives as mentioned in Stereophile. I was told that capability is not yet available.
I should have thought to ask about the remote control. I wonder if it has a scroll display like an I-pod?

David