Take 2 screensaver

Cuckoo said:

Well, i just can't get quite excited about the take two... i only like the airtunes feature...

but that's not my point. my question is... is the screensaver different in take 2 from the standard 1.0 and 1.1. versions?

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I miss the simple floating as a screensaver.
Why would they take that away???

jlanuez said:

I miss the simple floating as a screensaver.
Why would they take that away???

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I liked the floating apple too. I'd like to see the cover art screen saver be interactive...as you see an album cover float by, you can navigate to it and the aTV brings you to that album. How many times have u seen a cover and said "I haven't listened to that in years!! oh great, now i have to click, click, click to find it..."

Also the large, foreground covers are too large and cover the others. when the screen twirls, it sound land in a different spot amongst the covers. we've seen *incredible* things from Core animation in demos and such...why not here? for example in the RSS Screensaver on the mac, it has great dynamic background effects...it looks so cool! So basically we would be floating in a sea of covers and it wold randomly put you in a spot when it twirls!

...in addition to other screen savers too...like RSS, the mosaic...c'mon, aTV is just a Mac inside!

Yeah, I think the addition of an RSS screensaver would be great for the Apple TV. Set it to CNN headline news, or local weather, and your device just became that much more useful.

How come after all these years we havent seen the itunes city screensaver in the OS or AppleTV?

omegaphil6 said:

How come after all these years we havent seen the itunes city screensaver in the OS or AppleTV?

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Great question and my point exactly!!

omegaphil6 said:

How come after all these years we havent seen the itunes city screensaver in the OS or AppleTV?

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It is probably because the Apple TV and lower-end Macs do not have the grunt to do it smoothly. I would love to be proven wrong by a software update.

notjustjay said:

Yeah, I think the addition of an RSS screensaver would be great for the Apple TV. Set it to CNN headline news, or local weather, and your device just became that much more useful.

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I second that! Would be great to catch up on news while watching a screen saver.

My2c

Sol said:

It is probably because the Apple TV and lower-end Macs do not have the grunt to do it smoothly. I would love to be proven wrong by a software update.

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What is the RAM, processor speed etc on the Apple TV? Same as mac mini? And that the lower-end macs do not have these screensavers on them?

Marvin1379 said:

What is the RAM, processor speed etc on the Apple TV? Same as mac mini?

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It is a last-gen low-end Intel processor with a single core. Not sure what the RAM is but I guess 512 MB or lower. The software is based on OS X and it is optimised to run well on such a low-end system.

Sol said:

It is a last-gen low-end Intel processor with a single core. Not sure what the RAM is but I guess 512 MB or lower. The software is based on OS X and it is optimised to run well on such a low-end system.

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Even lower, 256MB.

Processor Intel[1] 1.0 GHz "Crofton" Processor
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 (64 MB VRAM)
Memory 256 MiB of 400 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_tv

jaw04005 said:

Even lower, 256MB.

Processor Intel[1] 1.0 GHz "Crofton" Processor
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 (64 MB VRAM)
Memory 256 MiB of 400 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_tv

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Is the RAM upgradable?

Marvin1379 said:

Is the RAM upgradable?

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My guess is that it is soldered on the motherboard like the RAM in the MacBook Air so no. In any case, it would not make any difference in performance because unlike a normal Mac you are only running one application on the Apple TV and that's the interface.

I would like to see the iTunes visualizer. It should have plenty of power to pump that out if my Ti Powerbook G4 500 can handle it.

usarcher said:

I would like to see the iTunes visualizer. It should have plenty of power to pump that out if my Ti Powerbook G4 500 can handle it.

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I second that. Better yet, bring the visualiser to the iPods.

Sol said:

I second that. Better yet, bring the visualiser to the iPods.

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Nice thought, can you imagine it on the touch/iphone