I had the original AppleTV back when it really was a “hobby”. It ran a lightly modified OS X (Tiger if I remember right). It was basically the same size as the current Mac Mini and a thinner version and design of the contemporaneous polycarbonate Mac Mini.
I had a Mac Mini as a media centre before I had an Apple TV.
Purposely bought a server model that fried both its drives, never to be seen again. It was not a happy experience, or one that I’d recommend.
The UI alone required both keyboard and mouse, you’re forever dealing with on-screen alerts, none of the software is really intended for full screen use 100% if the time, etc.
On the plus side, you can have an on screen clock all the time if you want, something I’ve never achieved with the Apple TV.
Not sure why you’re being down voted. I bought a 2012 Mac mini a few years ago and it ultimately became the media centre PC, but it was never perfect for the same reasons you said.
And this week the damn thing just died, absolutely no power. I presume the PSU died but yet to confirm. Now I’m planning to replace it with a Leader SN6 NUC I have around running some Linux distro with KDE and using the KDE Connect app to control it instead
Fuck it, if we aren’t getting an Apple TV update then this might have to do!
At one point the Apple TV was bigger than the current Mini IIRC.
I had the original AppleTV back when it really was a “hobby”. It ran a lightly modified OS X (Tiger if I remember right). It was basically the same size as the current Mac Mini and a thinner version and design of the contemporaneous polycarbonate Mac Mini.
Indeed, and I liked it better because of all the connectivity options.
I had a Mac Mini as a media centre before I had an Apple TV.
Purposely bought a server model that fried both its drives, never to be seen again. It was not a happy experience, or one that I’d recommend.
The UI alone required both keyboard and mouse, you’re forever dealing with on-screen alerts, none of the software is really intended for full screen use 100% if the time, etc.
On the plus side, you can have an on screen clock all the time if you want, something I’ve never achieved with the Apple TV.
Not sure why you’re being down voted. I bought a 2012 Mac mini a few years ago and it ultimately became the media centre PC, but it was never perfect for the same reasons you said.
And this week the damn thing just died, absolutely no power. I presume the PSU died but yet to confirm. Now I’m planning to replace it with a Leader SN6 NUC I have around running some Linux distro with KDE and using the KDE Connect app to control it instead
What kind of update does the Apple TV need?
Av1 support ideally!