Cheap legal machines have been available for years... they're called used Macs. You can find a 1 Ghz G4 for less than the cost of that contraption, and you don't have to hack the crap out of it to run OS X.
True, and I'd also like to add that the "Apollo 6" 7445 and 7455--the 1GHZ PPC chips--are substanially faster than a 1GHz Intel Celeron.
The only problems with using an old Mac are: - it's large, ergo doesn't fit well with your media appliances. - The GPU won't handle H;264 well at all. Quicktime will have to do the work in software and that will unfortunately be much worse than using the AppleTV appliance.
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Cheap legal machines have been available for years... they're called used Macs. You can find a 1 Ghz G4 for less than the cost of that contraption, and you don't have to hack the crap out of it to run OS X.
True, and I'd also like to add that the "Apollo 6" 7445 and 7455--the 1GHZ PPC chips--are substanially faster than a 1GHz Intel Celeron.
The only problems with using an old Mac are:
- it's large, ergo doesn't fit well with your media appliances.
- The GPU won't handle H;264 well at all. Quicktime will have to do the work in software and that will unfortunately be much worse than using the AppleTV appliance.