AppleTV Take Two August 9, 2008
Posted by Drew in : Technology , add a commentSo I wrote way back when about my purchase of the Apple TV and how for me it was exactly what I needed. In my original assessment I didn’t think that the original lowly 40Gb hard drive was going to be a problem but as with all things storage related the amount that is available soon fills and there is never enough. Once I started using the Apple TV in anger, especially with video content, the small drive was not suitable for a synchronising set up and whether this was a serious issue was going to be down to the wireless streaming capabilities. Well after using it for several months I can tell you that it is a problem. Here’s the deal; I have 802.11n in my house and it works fine upstairs and downstairs for all sorts of things, the obvious email/web browsing, XBox Live from upstairs works fine. But streaming high quality video? Not a chance. Not that this is necessarily an Apple TV issue. My video library is currently sat attached to a poor old Mac Mini which only runs 802.11g so that could be the bottleneck but whatever the reason I found that streaming was hit and miss. To add insult to injury, the more people in the house the worse the experience which means all my boasting about this technological marvel was quite rightly thrown right back in my face.