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Originally Posted by spaceman  Bad idea. For music listening , at least ,the previous model allowed you to have your music library installed in its internal HD. So you could listen to your music without having a computer connected at all times. The new one needs to have the computer connected at all times, all it does is stream. It's basically just a dumb wifi audio/video interface for the mac ( and pc under itunes) |
It might look dumb, but I think it is quite genius!
I live with 4 other people, all mac owners. In the center of our household we have an Apple Base Station connected to our broadband and also to a 500gb harddrive through it's USB port. Anyone who logs onto the base station can access the data or stream the media from that harddrive. This includes the aTv. With itunes home share turned on, anyone can stream a tune from someone else' itunes library.
We have even had multiple movies running at once, on the aTV and one a few mac computers.
I was impressed.
