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Hacker Turns $300 Apple TV into Cheapest Mac Ever

Posted by Zonk on from the another-bite-at-the-buck dept.

An anonymous reader wrote with a link to a Wired story about a fun play-along-at-home project: Turning Apple TV into a very tiny workable computer. "Apple TV is dead, long live the Mac Nano. Sort of. Just two weeks after Apple released its streaming media box to the public, hackers successfully installed OS X, Apple's desktop operating system, on the $300 device, making it the cheapest PC Cupertino has ever sold. 'The breakthrough is done, OS X runs on Apple TV!' wrote Semthex, the anonymous hacker responsible for the mod, at his website. 'Now we got (the) low-budget Mac we ever wanted.'"

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  1. Re:Of course.. by nagora · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    This pricepoint is pretty much based on pirating a copy of OS X.

    Just use a copy of a dead Mac; it's not like they're hard to find.

    TWW

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  2. What is the world coming to... by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The breakthrough is done, OS X runs on Apple TV!'

    Wow, Slashdot is losing its mind. Usually stories that make it to the front page start with "The breakthrough is done: Linux runs on ". But Apple's OSX (which is essentially BSD, which has been dead or dying too for decades incidentally)? and running on Apple hardware? really...

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  3. Re:Count in OSX license and it is not so cheap... by squiggleslash · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Try $500 for Mac OS X. The only legal ways of obtaining Mac OS X for Intel as of today are:

    1. Buy Mac OS X Server, 10 licenses ($500)
    2. Buy an Intel Mac. Remove OS, install something else (or destroy it or whatever.)

    You cannot buy the Intel version of Mac OS X for $130. You hopefully will once Leopard is released, but that's not happened yet. Kind of sucks, huh?

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  4. Re:Of course.. by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When Steve rubs your belly, does it make your leg wiggle? What? He never has? Keep posting, I'm sure he'll notice someday.

    People are hacking this thing for the love of the machine and its software. But I'm glad people like you exist to highlight the true nature of Apple.