They also come with a built in remote and receiver. Intel Mac Minis - Compared the original G4 Mac Mini I was trying to use, the new Intel Mac Minis are faster, have larger hard drives and Bluetooth and airport as standard (which the G4 didn’t have). I can barely notice a difference in performance between administering the Mac Mini and working on my MacBook Pro. Screen sharing - After using other VNC clients, the inbuilt screen sharing facility is easy and responsive. As far as I can see it only lacks the YouTube feature of the Apple TV. Front Row 2 also adopts the plugin ‘appliance’ architecture of Apple TV, as well as supporting sharing from other macs. So what’s different this time around?įront Row built into Leopard - rather than tied to particular machines and requiring a hack to make it work. I gave up on it a few months after, but recently decided that the time was now right. In the end, I went for the Mac Mini’s potential over the Apple TV ‘just works’, and using FrontRow and EyeTV to provide the interface.īut, I’d dabbled with a Mac Mini media Centre a couple of years ago, with a G4 Mini hacked to use FrontRow. No fiddling about, but no PVR functionality either. Apple TV has the ease of use that makes it ideal for the home.
That meant either a Mac Mini or an Apple TV, but that’s a hard decision. I’d hoped Wii Transfer would fit the bill, but the quality of the video streaming isn’t good enough (yet?). No getting away from it - I still yearned for a Mac based media centre. I’ll try and keep the comments open as long as I can) Apple TV or Mac Mini? The comments are great, with a whole variety of suggestions and details of other setups.
#Eyetv leopard update
(This post is a work in progress, that I will continue to update and tweak.
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