Yeah, ARM processors really beat the hell out of Core 2 Duo
I take it you didn't notice the new Apple TV can't do 1080p.
The a4 has been shown to be fully capable of 1080p. It's not that it can't, its just if it DID it eat bandwidth like crazy.
Yeah, ARM processors really beat the hell out of Core 2 Duo
I take it you didn't notice the new Apple TV can't do 1080p.
This gives new meaning to the word "brick." Seriously, why couldn't Apple allowed an update to this?
It's only fitting seeing as they stole the whole GUI design from Xerox at the beginning and founded the entire company on money they got from building/selling blue box phone equipment that stole long distance calls among other things. Bill Gates stole MS-Dos from CPM more or less. It's so ironic that two of the biggest anti-pirate companies on the planet got their start stealing other people's ideas and/or profits.
WTF no netflix for the old Apple TV.
They are acting like its some sort of hardware limitation. come on Apple it should be rather easy to port over the software to allow Netflix.
The a4 has been shown to be fully capable of 1080p. It's not that it can't, its just if it DID it eat bandwidth like crazy.
Yeah, ARM processors really beat the hell out of Core 2 Duo
I take it you didn't notice the new Apple TV can't do 1080p.
Want to do a bit of research first?
The old Apple TV did not have a Core 2 Duo, it had a Pentium M chip Source
As the article states it is a 1Ghz chip which is under-clocked for the Apple TV. Last time I checked, 1Ghz A4 chip has a faster clock speed than an under-clocked 1Ghz Pentium M.
WTF no netflix for the old Apple TV.
They are acting like its some sort of hardware limitation. come on Apple it should be rather easy to port over the software to allow Netflix.
Just hack your old Apple TV, install Boxee and you've got Netflix.![]()
It's only fitting seeing as they stole the whole GUI design from Xerox at the beginning and founded the entire company on money they got from building/selling blue box phone equipment that stole long distance calls among other things. Bill Gates stole MS-Dos from CPM more or less. It's so ironic that two of the biggest anti-pirate companies on the planet got their start stealing other people's ideas and/or profits.
By stole, I assume you mean bought. I think it was 100,000 shares in Apple for 1,000,000 dollars for access to all of PARC's work.
Easy to port the software to allow Netflix? You realize the new Apple TV is a completely different hardware platform. The move to x86 to ARM based (like the iPhone) is not exactly an easy transition, I am sure having iOS already pretty well developed helped a lot in making Netflix work on the new one.
As for the old Apple TV, they would essentially have to write the Netflix app from scratch, rather than just asking the Netflix people to change their iOS app slightly to make it work with the new one.
Want to do a bit of research first?
The old Apple TV did not have a Core 2 Duo, it had a Pentium M chip Source
As the article states it is a 1Ghz chip which is under-clocked for the Apple TV. Last time I checked, 1Ghz A4 chip has a faster clock speed than an under-clocked 1Ghz Pentium M.
Hacking the ATV is not the ideal solution. I had Boxee and Netflix running on my hacked ATV for about a month then the menus would lock up. Had to do a full restore and I have not hacked it again. Quite different from my macMini PC in the home theater set up running Boxee, Plex and Netflix without these annoying hiccups.
Want to do a bit of research first?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_rate
1Ghz is 1Ghz. The have the same clock rate. One chip maybe faster then the other at the same, but the 1Ghz A4 chip is the same clock speed lol.
And where did you get the A4 > Pentium?
"which has been under-clocked to run on a 350MHz bus"
I find it hilarious how naïve you are that you actually believe the reason why MS has less money than Apple is because they're 'nicer'!
No, the reason is MS is becoming increasingly irrelevant. They've put out a load of poor products (Kin, Vista, Windows Mobile etc.) and they aren't doing as well as they used to.
If you think MS is choosing to make less money for the sake of being nice, then I give up, you're beyond help, you're completely crazy.
No, I am not that naive. But did you notice that Microsoft actually still makes much more money than Apple (18.76B in income for the last year vs 12.24B for AAPL) and yet they have less cash?
No, I don't need to do any research, I have a degree in computer science.
The magic word you don't seem to understand is underclocked.
Seeing as you see Wikipedia as the font of all knowledge, here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underclocking
As both my post and the article I linked to mentioned, the Pentium M chip in the original Apple TV is underclocked.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M It's clear that the low end 1Ghz chip has a FSB of 400Mhz.
From the article I linked to: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/01/15/pentium_m_based_intel_chip_at_heart_of_apple_tv.html
So if a chip is underclocked from running on a 400Mhz bus to a 350Mhz bus, based on the multiplier, the clock speed of the Apple TV is 875Mhz.
And in case you need it spelt out for you, 875Mhz < 1000Mhz.