Re: 5 Things AppleTV needs to be a MUST BUY by Apple Gazette

[Kevin Callahan]

On Apr 7, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote:

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> On Apr 7, 2007, at 5:37 PM, LuKreme wrote:
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>> On 7-Apr-2007, at 11:05, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>> The iPhone can run Safari, why can't AppleTV ?   Yeah - no =20
>>> keyboard interface for AppleTV for navigation/search .. but
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>> The =F0TV can run a full install of Mac OS X, including Safari.  It =20=

>> can also use a keyboard (it has a USB 2.0 port that is mostly =20
>> completely waranty preserving hacked (they've not gotten mass =20
>> storage to work with the APple TV software at this point, last I =20
>> checked).
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>> People HAVE installed 10.4.9 on their =F0TV's.  Course, it sorta =20
>> stops being an =F0TV at that point....
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> Very true on all points.  But those people don't really want an =20
> appleTV at that point imho.  They want a cheap PC.

Or an updated Mac mini.

K