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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. low-budget Mac by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Isnt that the low end Mini?

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  2. Re:Of course.. by vertinox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is no way to legally get a standalone, retail copy of Mac OS X (Intel) for AppleTV

    For some reason, I would speculate you will be able to buy a stand alone copy of Leopard OS X for Intel when it comes out.

    Otherwise, plenty of Intel Tiger users will be stuck with the version they have.

    I do remember buying Panther in the store when it came out and upgrading my PPC and it wasn't an upgrade license.

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  3. Dupe by dinojemr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A dupe of this April Fools post. Did it need to be posted again for people to believe it?