Hi, been lurking on the forums for a long time but first post.
I've recently bought a 40gb Apple TV to stream iTunes media from my MacBook, my only problem is, my MacBook's virtually out of space and what little is left is needed for work.
I don't want to add an external drive as I quite often use it away from a desk, tethering it seems to rather defeat the point of having a laptop.
I do also have an iMac G3 400mhz, 640mb ram, running Tiger with the latest iTunes, this machine has very little use, light internet browsing and a bit of word editing.
I'm wondering if I could hook an external drive to this machine and have it act as a media server, I know USB 2 isn't supported, so i'd be looking at buying a 750gb Firewire drive.
I do hope to later swap the Apple TV's internal hard drive for a larger model, however i'd rather not hack it via software for the time being.
Could anyone advise me if the G3 iMac would be upto this? Or if there's another solution that i've overlooked?
Regards,
Ian
I've recently bought a 40gb Apple TV to stream iTunes media from my MacBook, my only problem is, my MacBook's virtually out of space and what little is left is needed for work.
I don't want to add an external drive as I quite often use it away from a desk, tethering it seems to rather defeat the point of having a laptop.
I do also have an iMac G3 400mhz, 640mb ram, running Tiger with the latest iTunes, this machine has very little use, light internet browsing and a bit of word editing.
I'm wondering if I could hook an external drive to this machine and have it act as a media server, I know USB 2 isn't supported, so i'd be looking at buying a 750gb Firewire drive.
I do hope to later swap the Apple TV's internal hard drive for a larger model, however i'd rather not hack it via software for the time being.
Could anyone advise me if the G3 iMac would be upto this? Or if there's another solution that i've overlooked?
Regards,
Ian