I've had this for about 4 months now and simply sits next to my 42" LCD. Its very slim, (about the size of 2-DVD cases stacked on each other tall) and very quiet (unlike the fan-blowing Xbox 360 that I have). And aside from its sleek look, one of the coolest feature this baby has is the ability to download DVD and HD quality movies for rent/purchase directly from the Apple iTunes store! You can rent movies at $2.99 and HD quality at $3.99. So far I've downloaded a few old school movies (such as Groundhog Day and War Games) for 99 cents which was very conveinien. I could pause, fast forward, rewind and all that stuff. Other cool features are the ability to browse/play podcasts on-the-fly as well as browse and stream YouTube.com videos. All this happens over a wired or wireless network connection!
Overall, the Apple TV essentially syncs with your iTunes application running on your Mac or PC. You can access and play music, music videos, movies, tv shows, podcasts, audiobooks as well as look at photos. So far its been a good little investment. There are some downsides such as hard drive space, lack of file formats you can play, but overall I give this 2 thumbs up. I have already been ripping a bunch of my DVD's and syncing them up with the AppleTV... another excuse reason to plop in front of the LCD TV!
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Sweet!!! You drank the cool-aid! At a boy ben. I really really really want one, but I'm gonna by my G3 iPhone first. I already have the MacBook Pro(intel mac) and it rocks. If you have an AIM account add me, we'll vid chat some time. (gp1125racer)
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James
I'm not that much of a nut to have drunk the kool-aid but it was a nice switch I made (full-time) to the Mac last December. Don't have to worry about spyware and all that crap. I added your AIM so I'll try and catch ya online sometime! Take care!
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