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harcosparky

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It's here and as yet still UNOPENED! :eek:

Not sure if it is in the new packaging or not, but it is in the box shown in the Apple Store as shown below.

As much as I want to tear it open and fire it up, I got things to do around here.

Hopefully I'll crack it open after dinner !!!!

Oh and yeah, it's a 160 .... but I got plans to expand that! (maybe!)
 

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harcosparky said:
It's here and as yet still UNOPENED! :eek:

Not sure if it is in the new packaging or not, but it is in the box shown in the Apple Store as shown below.

As much as I want to tear it open and fire it up, I got things to do around here.

Hopefully I'll crack it open after dinner !!!!

Oh and yeah, it's a 160 .... but I got plans to expand that! (maybe!)
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What sort of hard drive is in the Apple TV? Thanks
 
harcosparky said:
It's here and as yet still UNOPENED! :eek:

Not sure if it is in the new packaging or not, but it is in the box shown in the Apple Store as shown below.

As much as I want to tear it open and fire it up, I got things to do around here.

Hopefully I'll crack it open after dinner !!!!

Oh and yeah, it's a 160 .... but I got plans to expand that! (maybe!)
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I bought mine the day of the keynote. I have the same box so that is the v2 box.
 
Version 1 for sure...

Apple TV Take 2 is not out yet... It should be released this week, as Steve Job said on January 15th that Take 2 would be available in 2 weeks, which brings us to January 29-30. :p

I just got everything sync'ed from my Macbook to my Apple TV and played with it this afternoon... This little device is amazing!! I am now encoding a few DVDs to Apple TV's format.
 
DarkMCS said:
Version 1 for sure...

Apple TV Take 2 is not out yet... It should be released this week, as Steve Job said on January 15th that Take 2 would be available in 2 weeks, which brings us to January 29-30. :p
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No doubt it's Version 1, but it's in the Version 2 box! :D

I only brought that up because in other threads people were asking about the box.

Oh I was told the update will be out on the 29th. Several different clerks at 2 different Apple Stores told me.

paulyras said:
They're 2.5 pata
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Where can I confirm they are PATA? Articles I read on swapping them out say they are normal ATA.
Those articles are old ( March 2007 ), did Apple change to PATA? ( or am I an idiot not knowing PATA and ATA are the same thing? :D

http://www.macworld.com/article/57079/2007/03/appletvharddrive.html
 
harcosparky said:
Where can I confirm they are PATA? Articles I read on swapping them out say they are normal ATA.
Those articles are old ( March 2007 ), did Apple change to PATA? ( or am I an idiot not knowing PATA and ATA are the same thing? :D

http://www.macworld.com/article/57079/2007/03/appletvharddrive.html
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From Wikipedia:
Wikipedia said:
Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) is a standard interface for connecting storage devices such as hard disks and CD-ROM drives inside personal computers.

The standard is maintained by X3/INCITS committee T13. Many synonyms and near-synonyms for ATA exist, including abbreviations such as IDE and ATAPI. Also, with the market introduction of Serial ATA in 2003, the original ATA was retroactively renamed Parallel ATA (PATA).
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The drives in the Apple TV are indeed the older PATA kind.
 
harcosparky said:
It's here and as yet still UNOPENED! :eek:

Not sure if it is in the new packaging or not, but it is in the box shown in the Apple Store as shown below.

As much as I want to tear it open and fire it up, I got things to do around here.

Hopefully I'll crack it open after dinner !!!!

Oh and yeah, it's a 160 .... but I got plans to expand that! (maybe!)
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I bet you cant wait.
 
w8ing4intelmacs said:
Out of curiousity, why did you order the 160GB version if you were just going to upgrade it anyway? :)
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juanster said:
that is exactly what was going thru my mind? i dont get it...
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Well when you think about it, after I do an upgrade I will have the drive I removed to deal with. In my mind, I'd rather have a 160 Gig HDD than a 40 Gig in the 'spares' cabinet. I mean what value would the 40 Gig have?

The 160 could be used to upgrade my sons Macbook, or put into an enclosure and used as an external drive..

I consider two things, what goes in and what comes out.
 
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