anybody got any exp with it?
was thinking about getting one mainly for
having an easy access to music from the pc
in the livingroom for partys where i guess
the easyness of apple would be handy if you
had a bit of a drink
and maybe the odd yourTube click for fun
and a few video clicps not too many so i guess
the 40gb would be enough
apple TV sucks, especially the value of it. Its simply too expensive for its features. I rather buy a home media centre PC for the living room TV.
I quite like them
Dont expect to get every youtube clip on it though, they are currently somewhat limited.
Certainly when 'modified' they become great little boxes capable of playing XVID encoded videos.
A friend of mine (www.semthex.com) developed a kernel for it that allows Tiger 10.4 to run natively!
Well worth the money IMHO.
buy a used macmini add $20 adapter
mini duo +
dvi- hdmi
or dvi to s
4 usb ports
usb to s-video nad sound
i or 2 firewire ports to all of the above including dvi hdmi
all white apple adapters frys
assuming that mac tcv is still over priced
mini is mac tv skills and adapter (no skills if you can listen to a guy at the apple store)
assuming mactv is still $$$$
ebay mini duo $300 xp upgrade $0 Toshiba dvd player with usb port and divx on it$40
or even $20 linksys wireless gaming device to tv
yu got options
i dont really want another pc
what i want is a device with 0 boottime
and zero hassel
that my gf and or guests can operate without
having to mess about
I'm interested to know what other gadgets people like, so I've decided to start a new thread where people can share the names of their favourite stuff. I'll start it off:
White Apple 13" Macbook running OSX Leopard
Apple Bluetooth Keyboard
Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse
Self Built Tower PC - Asus TA 211 Case running XP MCE 2005
Hauppauge Nova TD 500 DVB-T Card
Acer L310 Small Form Factor Dedicated Vista Media Center PC
Hauppage Nova TD USB DVB-T Stick
Microsoft Comfort Keyboard 6000
Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000
Silver Dell SP2208WFP 22" LCD
Silver 32" Technosonic LCD
Samsung 15" SyncMaster 510MP LCD
Sony DSC N1 Digital Camera
White JBL On Tour Speakers
Creative Labs 2.1 L3450 Speakers w/ Creative Wireless Remote I200
iPod Classic Silver
iPod Shuffle Silver
White HTC Touch
Sony PS2 Silver Slimline
Sony DPP FP30 Photo Printer
Logitech Bluetooth Headphones
Kameleon 9600 Universal Remote
TomTom GPS Receiver
Scosche Bluelife Bluetooth Car Kit
Well you have a lot!
Currently, the main things I have are:
Self built tower running XP Home x86, Ubuntu 8.04 x64 and whatever other Linux distro I feel like today...
Power Mac G4 (the tower one, 400MHz processor!) running OSX 10.4 and Ubuntu 8.04
A very old Dell Inspiron 1200 (in pieces on my desk)
An even older laptop...
Logitech Wireless Keyboard
Logitech Wireless Mouse
Proview 17" LCD
PS2 in silver
Wii
Orange branded HTC Prophet
HP 2500 series MFP
Orange Livebox (breaks a lot. Don't get one!)
gamegear
gbcolor main game super mario and bomberman
gamecast
gameboypocket silver edition main games pokemon red and blue
burgerking snowboard game
proscan 32" tube tv
much more new and exciting gadgets
Other than the Tilt, my other favorite gadget would be......
Lots of gatgets but these are my (mobile) favorites...
Archos 705, Sony Ericsson MBW-150, Sony PRS-505
good image
Currently:
-Treo 650. Best PDA in its time.
-iPod Touch 3rd. Gen. Best current PDA.
-Dell Studio 15. Riddled with hardware bugs, bought at the wrong time. Not a deal, but works great with Windows 7.
-Xbox 360 on 19in. monitor (129$ for HD gaming: priceless!)
-Olympus E-420 DSLR. Demo model, bought it for peanuts and now realising photography ain't a cheap sport.
-Bunch of other crap: GameBoy Color w/ Pokemon Pinball, great speakers, spare keyboards...
I'm using my trusty old Treo as a transition phone, waiting for my HTC Dream to arrive. I still think it has wonderful software features phone nowadays miss.
Dell Vostro 1500
Game cube
My i7 rig that I've been working on
That's pretty much it.
I've not got many gadgets as I spend most of my spare time with my son/wife.......but when I can
Laptop
wii
iPod Touch
bluetooth earpiece (for handsfree)
Thats about it
i generally use my
PSP for gaming
i pod touch 16 gb for music and videos
and some normal stuff like a laptop and desktop etc
Tilt2, Fuze, Tilt and ZuneHD 32Gb. And a few laptops and desktops...
Close redundant thread
Already one with same topic!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5078898#post5078898
orb3000 said:
Already one with same topic!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5078898#post5078898
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It's the same thread
My Gadgets are:
Touch Pro
Kaiser
Excalibur
Home build AMD X3 720BE \ 8600GT OC \ 1.5TB HD \ 4GB DDR2 Kingston Hyper X \ 2 x 19" \ Vista 64 SP2
Home build AMD X2 3800+ \ 8600GT OC \ 500GB HD \ 2GB DDR2 OCZ Platinum \ 19" \ XP Pro SP3
Finepix S5700
Zune 4GB
Here is my list:
HTC Universal
Motorola MPx200
Palm Treo 650
XMI X-mini II
3.5" GPS WinCE 5.0
Canon Powershot A430
Samsung VP-DX100 (DVD Video camera)
MSI VR-601X Notebook Overclocked and RAM upgraded
This is my daily gadgets list
stylez said:
It's the same thread
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Oops!
Sorry for that
Anyway my gadgets are:
Rhodium
universal
Excalibr
Topaz
My laptop
orb3000 said:
Oops!
Sorry for that
Anyway my gadgets are:
Rhodium
universal
Excalibr
Topaz
My laptop
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The word 'DOH' comes to mind
htc touch pro
samsung omnia i900
sony vaio vgn-fw11m
hp jornada 720 (i know its old
samsung digital photo frame (it was a gift)
wacom bamboo one tablet
htc touch hd
blackberry curve 8900
13.3 macbook pro 2.26 ghz 4gb ram
apple time capsule (wireless hardrive)
xbox 360
wii
HTC Rose (S740)
Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet 60GB
Dell Latitude D600 2GHZ Pentium,2GB Ram,160GB HDD....XP
And my Desktop:
[email protected],EVGA 285GTX SSC,8GB Ram,750GB SATA2,Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit on an LE32B650 and Dolby....great Gaming.....
And a lot of other "Home Entertainment" stuff....
HTC Dream
HTC Vogue
Zune 120 GB (although, it's on the fritz, AGAIN, and service is probably going to replace it with a damned 32 GB Zune HD)
XBox 360
And this p.o.s. hand-me-down laptop, since my laptop's motherboard fried
Getting myself a new monitor, and i could use some input. The monitor will be used mostly for pc gaming and movies (and occasionally doubling as a tv). It needs to have at least 1 DVI input and 1 HDMI input (for my consoles). Also, it'd be great if it had speakers for the audio when using something through HDMI. I've also heard good things about LED-backlit and IPS monitors. Absolute max budget is $400. Please recommend away.
MrJazzbo said:
Getting myself a new monitor, and i could use some input. The monitor will be used mostly for pc gaming and movies (and occasionally doubling as a tv). It needs to have at least 1 DVI input and 1 HDMI input (for my consoles). Also, it'd be great if it had speakers for the audio when using something through HDMI. I've also heard good things about LED-backlit and IPS monitors. Absolute max budget is $400. Please recommend away.
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I have a LG FLatron w2442pe hooked up to my 360, looks beautifull, has a built in speaker, but i recommend you hook it up to some pc speakers.
Go to a store and watch
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This one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monitor
It was built in my neighborhood
jaszek said:
This one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monitor
It was built in my neighborhood
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Marrimac. :sly:
Please recommend me a submarine?
http://www.asus.com/Monitors_Projectors/MX239H/#specifications
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I am wondering if anyone has a Windows 8(.1) Bay Trail (quad-core Atom) device yet? I am curious if these have enough processing power to cast tabs smoothly from Chrome, even if just at standard definition.
I was contemplating that I might buy the Asus T100 tablet/netbook when it comes out and relegate my old laptop and first-gen netbook to the donation bin. Of course, yes, I can also just plug the device straight into the TV.
Hi All,
Bought a Chromecast the other day, Connected up fine.
If I try to cast High or Extreme quality off my Acer C710 Chromebook (upgraded to 4gb ram) it becomes very juddery (the picture) the sound is fine though. I haven't yet tried this with my Acer laptop with Ubuntu. If I switch it to normal quality its fine however.
Using Sky Fibre connection (Apple Airport Extreme router).
Any ideas? Is it that the Chromebook isn't upto streaming it in that quality? (Im planning on getting the Toshiba Chromebook 13 anyway)
AndrewJB88 said:
Hi All,
Bought a Chromecast the other day, Connected up fine.
If I try to cast High or Extreme quality off my Acer C710 Chromebook (upgraded to 4gb ram) it becomes very juddery (the picture) the sound is fine though. I haven't yet tried this with my Acer laptop with Ubuntu. If I switch it to normal quality its fine however.
Using Sky Fibre connection (Apple Airport Extreme router).
Any ideas? Is it that the Chromebook isn't upto streaming it in that quality? (Im planning on getting the Toshiba Chromebook 13 anyway)
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Could be the wireless connectivity to Chromecast, could be the Chromebook, could be the router...
In general the tab/desktop casting is not very efficient though. Screen mirroring isn't Chromecast's primary function.
Also, what generation of Airport Extreme do you have? There were many that share the same name, but not he same features/performance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_Extreme
Chromebooks in general are not designed with video encoding in mind, which is an extremely demanding task. I would say that your Chromebook's CPU is bottle-necked.
It's a Celeron processor. It's not strong enough for the encoding burden required at higher bitrates.
I had a feeling it would be the Chromebook, It plays fine at normal quality.
I wont bother with higher quality's till I get a new Chromebook.
Airport Extreme is a 5th generation one I think