[dundee] Thursday 31st talk

[simon Wells]

Currently I don't. I missed out on the original ATV, which was basically a cut down mac mini in my eyes and I already have one of those from around the same time which still sees daily use. I never got around to buying any of the newer versions of ATV, yet… I keep toying with the idea of the ATV3+jailbreak. With SSH access it could become a quite desirable little shell server but I haven't seen any straightforward & reliable jailbreaks for it so far. Hence I was hoping that your talk might have been about making the ATV3 less apple-y.

I feel that the ATV3 is, hardware wise, very similar to the Raspberry Pi and could fill a similar niche, i.e. less than a hundred quid (cost of RPI + an enclosure, PSU, &c), connect to a tv, USB expansion, and having a fairly robust & modern *nix in the form of IOS preinstalled. It just needs a simple way to jailbreak then get some educational software & coding tools installed. As a result I reckon that Apple is missing a trick here in getting cheap, low-power, educational machines into the hands of everyone.

Simon


On 6 Jun 2012, at 17:57, Stuart McCulloch Anderson wrote:

> Hi Simon, 
> 
> I was talking the first generation AppleTV running XBMC v11 Eden. Although I know that I latest version of the AppleTV is fully supported 
> 
> What setup do you run? 
> 
> Stu
> 
> simon Wells <siwells at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> I am going to do a 'personal experience' talk on how I setup my home
>> media centers. I'll be talking about XBMC, making the AppleTV allot
>> less apple and bashing almost every aspect of the DVD ripping process. 
>> 
>> Obviously didn't make it to the talk, but was wondering which version
>> of the ATV you were talking about?
>> 
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
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