Originally Posted by
sdm1130
I am curious, what more did you want out of the Apple TV? A built-in tuner? While that would be nice, it would cut into AAPL's tv/movie download revenue.
I thinking making it a standalone set-top box that people can rent HD movies from was a pretty nice upgrade!
More open access to the underlying OS would have been nice. At this point i'm waiting for an upgraded mini as that will better suit my needs for an entertainment center computer.
Originally Posted by
Arthurrs
Lots of people with iPods and iPhones out there, and not much complaining about not being able to replace the battery without popping open the cover!
There is a huge amount of fuss about not being able to replace the iPod batteries as they die before just about any other component.
Originally Posted by
Meerkat
some places I travel to I need to use wired ethernet or even sometimes (ugh) dial-up, so I'd need to carry separate USB adaptors for those.
Yup.
Also, is it as easy to rip DVDs to a Mac as it is to a PC? I currently rip using a combination of DVD Decrypter and DVD Region+CSS (legitimate DVDs here in HK come with a variety of region encoding, so I need a way of "cracking").
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