I have a 40gb apple tv, used for about 40min. I made a patch stick and unlocked it so now it has SSH enabled. You can connect to it with winscp or any *nix machine and put whatever you want on it. It can easily be restored to factory defaults if you like. Now it functions much like an xbox with xbmc, only more powerful. The one problem with it, and the reason I'm selling it, is it will not play MKV wrapped HD rips. It DOES have more horsepower than the xbox to play anything the xbox can play as well as AVI and WMV wrapped HD rips.

Comes with everything from the box
remote
cds (I don't even know what they are, didn't look at them)
unit
power cable

The unit does NOT come with any AV cabling from the factory and I will not be including any, but monoprice.com has great deals.

Very small, quiet, and very low wife/gf aggro generation

Size and weight

* Footprint: 7.7 by 7.7 inches (197 by 197 mm)
* Height: 1.1 inches (28 mm)
* Weight: 2.4 pounds (1.09 kg)1

Power

* Built-in 48-watt universal power supply

Processor and storage
Intel

* Intel processor
* 40GB or 160GB hard drive2 for storing content locally
* Up to 50 hours (40GB) or 200 hours (160GB) of video3
* Up to 9,000 songs (40GB) or 36,000 songs (160GB)4
* Up to 25,000 pictures5

Ports and interfaces

* HDMI (video and audio)7
* Component video
* Optical audio
* Analog RCA stereo audio
* 10/100BASE-T Ethernet
* USB 2.0
* 802.11n wireless networking6
* Built-in IR receiver (works with included Apple Remote)

$150

The hacks enable play of content over samba/nfs/nas, nintendo emulator, mounting of other usb devices (like external hard drives), installation of full OSX or whatever program you want compiled for osx86 10.4.8

[Edited on March 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM. Reason : more]

3/30/2008 12:12:05 PM

it will play wmv-hds?

3/30/2008 12:34:35 PM

it can play some, I think it depends on how it's encoded. I've had luck with some 720p rips, never had any luck with 1080p though.

it's a 1ghz pentium-M 1mb l2 400mhz fsb, geforce 7400go 64mb (or 32?), and 256mb of ram running a stripped osx install.

3/30/2008 12:42:34 PM

I think I'd like to get it...trying to wean myself off the satellite TV and I think this might do it.

Check your PM for my contact info...

3/30/2008 12:49:30 PM

haha you said "wean"

3/30/2008 1:41:05 PM

sold, lock, delete

3/30/2008 4:04:47 PM