Comments on: Mac OS X running on Apple TV

By: deactive

deactive — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:57:38 +0000

@bloaty : I've done this hack successfully, but I can get it the atv booting from usb hub. No troubles instead when usb drive is connected straight to the atv. However to reply your post, as I'm unable to control the os if not with remote screen I've used to connect to atv thru my ipod touch ( with jaadu vnc app ). A little too small area but the atv will work as tablet ; )

regards
Alex

By: christopherspalian

christopherspalian — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:54:29 +0000

This is great. has any testing been done on putting Leopard or Snow Leopard on the APple TV?

By: camilias

camilias — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:07:35 +0000

hi, When I found this document, everything is too late, I've format the harddisk and installed osx without back up anything, so please, would you email me a copy of backup file?
thanks so much!
camilias
camilias.c@gmail.com

By: DVAVC

DVAVC — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:05:21 +0000

Ye, that's really helps. My whole purpose of buying ATV was to use it's digital and analog outs, that i can connect it to my preamp or DAC and get somewhat dissent sound out of I-tunes radio. My reason for trying this hack was to have an independent media player without need to have my Mac Book pro powered all the time. Obviously after this hack nothing is working. Totally useless waste of time and money.

By: Name

Name — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:23:28 +0000

I'm really wondering whether this site sponsored by Apple to boost sale of the Apple tv boxes? For the time and efforts spent on trying to make this s…t work…. Yuo can't be serious, are you?
If I new from the very beginning what's involved, I would newer buy Apple Tv, which now i can't take back because it is opened.
It should have been noted in the very beginning of this tread that this will never work properly.
What is the point of doing all this ? Just a hack for a hack? Or for a sake of a of couple of hundred of $ difference between Aple Tv and Mac mini?
Man, one got to be really on a low budget and madly in love with Apple to be wasting all this time.

By: JoshuaDCoulter

JoshuaDCoulter — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:19:07 +0000

If anyone has a backup img of there AppleTV hard drive and could send it to me or upload it to the internet it would be greatly appreciated. If anyone could my email is wiredatros@gmail.com. Thanks.

By: gygy

gygy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:01:49 +0000

ha ha ha what about vista?

By: E Newton

E Newton — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:50:58 +0000

wow, this is really cool… I found this after trying to research how to get a MacMini to do full HDMI (ie, video & audio) and seeing that it would be totally whack. great job putting this together! i will now get an apple tv appliance for my tv and leave the mini on my desk

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:56:30 +0000

I have bought a 2.3 Apple TV a few days ago, and after puting Nito TV / ATV / Boxee and the rest of the plugin in, decided that it would be cooler to have OSX.

My question is, if i install OSC 10.4.8with the mach kernel, will i be able to use my wireless mac keyboard through infrared?

Many thanks…. love this forum.

Sam.

By: text-to-screen

text-to-screen — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:28:12 +0000

Very cool guys! I just got an Apple TV today, does anyone know if OS X runs smoothly?