Repurposing my old AppleTV
It's a fairly safe bet I'll be buying the new AppleTV in a few weeks. But I'm loath to dump the old one—after all, it's really just a very small Mac (a mini-Mini, maybe) running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, right?
It seems like it should be possible to do SOMETHING useful with it. All of my media is on a Drobo, but I never did spring for a DoboShare. Perhaps the old AppleTV's USB port could be enabled and it could be a network file server.
Is that, or some other usage, possible? Maybe a dedicated MAME machine? Small web server? Maybe even load some variety of Linux on it?
Any ideas?
It seems like it should be possible to do SOMETHING useful with it. All of my media is on a Drobo, but I never did spring for a DoboShare. Perhaps the old AppleTV's USB port could be enabled and it could be a network file server.
Is that, or some other usage, possible? Maybe a dedicated MAME machine? Small web server? Maybe even load some variety of Linux on it?
Any ideas?
Mac OS X (10.4.3)
