One of the big issues that I see with hacking the new Apple TV is it's use of Apple's A4 chip. To my knowledge, no one has built a Linux kernel for it. It's a system on a chip, including the processor and graphics engine, etc. Given that it's proprietary, it may be a long time before that happens.
I did hear that it's very similar in design to the iPad and has already been jail-broken. But that doesn't particularly excite me at this point. I was also surprised to hear that it is also crippled with only 256MB of memory just like the older Apple TVs, making it even less enticing. Unless you're interested in what it can do out of the box, I'd say stick with the previous generation. Bruce On Oct 2, 12:09 pm, Robert Baptista <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't believe the atv2 runs osx. I think Mythfrontend would have to > be ported to IOS. > > As far as price is, the original atv's can now be had for $80 on ebay > and craigslist. Just picked another one up myself last week. > > Robert > > On 10/2/2010 9:00 AM, radmofo wrote: > > > I did a few searches and it appears the new appletv is a little > > different than the original being that it has no hard drive but > > instead 8 gb of flash and it doesnt have a usb drive. The $99.00 cost > > of the unit even directly from apple is very enticing. > > > Has anyone successfully installed mythtv frontend on this thing yet? > > -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en
