Apple TV running full version of OS X

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D.B. @ Mar 31st 2007 11:05PM

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.

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Leonard Nimrod @ Mar 31st 2007 11:15PM

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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