Apple TV gets the SSD treatment

Well, it had to happen eventually: someone cracked open their Apple TV and transplanted the 2.5-inch drive with a 32GB SSD by Transcend. That's pretty much it -- just a bit of hacking, partitioning, re-imaging, and off you go. Do you really even have to ask if putting an SSD in something was worth it?

[form222 @ Jun 14th 2008 6:47AM]

Worth what, a front page entry on engadget? probably not.

[Kizorblade @ Jun 14th 2008 6:56AM]

They have a second page for lesser news?

[King Mook Mook @ Jun 14th 2008 7:03AM]

@Kizorblade: Good Idea!

[fred @ Jun 14th 2008 7:34AM]

"That's pretty much it -- just a bit of hacking, partitioning, re-imaging, and off you go. Do you really even have to ask if putting an SSD in something was worth it?"

Ok......... And why did you post this then?

I will give you the benefit of the doubt that it has nothing to do with it being an Apple product, or you have user data saying that this is what "millions" of people show up to Engadget to read about.

[John @ Jun 14th 2008 7:57AM]

MarkD

I don't care about either of those things, and I am the target audience for this blog. Please direct your cursor to the nearest X button.

[bondsbw @ Jun 14th 2008 8:20AM]

Yes, and in those same articles, it says that ASUS and Apple have the top growth by percentage over the previous year.

Anyone else want to spin the facts their way?

[Timothy Sottek @ Jun 14th 2008 9:18AM]

I love how every Mac hack news post begins with:

"Well, it had to happen eventually..."

[axemt @ Jun 14th 2008 9:31AM]

@ MarkD & fred

The nerve! You shouldn't complain about any these kind of posts since you clearly are not one of the "millions" of people that show up to Engadget to read about Britney, eh, Apple worth news.

[Hamidxa @ Jun 14th 2008 11:01AM]

MarkD,

I care about those things, so thanks for the links -- delivering on what Engadget fails to due to an intrinsic Apple Bios.

Nice to see Apple getting stomped in the laptop sector by everyone and their cousin pretty much.

[puhsitch @ Jun 14th 2008 11:52AM]

MarkD, what does the news look like when you break it down by country? Like notebook market share in the U.S., for instance.

[OneLove @ Jun 14th 2008 1:25PM]

You are not starting that again? They can post whatever they want and you can choose to skip past it. damn.

[phanbouy @ Jun 14th 2008 5:40PM]

AXEMT IS TEH FUNNY HAHA I HEART WHINING

[Fusion Fuzo @ Jun 14th 2008 6:55AM]

that works out as less memory for downloads on apple tv

[Chuckles McGee @ Jun 14th 2008 7:09PM]

And an increased transfer rate that's not going to noticeably affect performance at all. Yay!

[mattclarkie @ Jun 14th 2008 6:58AM]

I didn't think you could make Apple TV more useless. But I was wrong.


Flame me baby.

[Zorque @ Jun 14th 2008 7:38AM]

What about this makes it more useless? Equally so, sure, but more?

[Leo M. @ Jun 14th 2008 11:28AM]

That's right baby. I love lots of apple products but that apple tv is pretty close to useless. I just use my Mac Mini as a media center computer. The more control the better :) (oh and full OS X)

[lance @ Jun 14th 2008 7:03AM]

uhhhh...was it worth it?
over priced drive for a POS in the first place?

[wilcoholic @ Jun 14th 2008 7:16AM]

Guys I just replaced 512mb of RAM on my old P4 computer with 2gb of RAM! This gruesome process took me a whopping 3 minutes(!) to complete. It was gruesome the whole time but I did it and everything works fine

[Kizorblade @ Jun 14th 2008 8:46AM]

Pics/video or it didn't happen!

[Hamidxa @ Jun 14th 2008 11:04AM]

Well, it had to happen eventually.

[mcatrage @ Jun 14th 2008 1:05PM]

Might be one of the shortest posts I've ever seen. Even the writer couldn't bullshit something more interesting.

[Greg @ Jun 14th 2008 1:14PM]

Yeah, but was it worth it??

[Max @ Jun 14th 2008 7:16AM]

I clicked through to see if the question is answered, so yeah - I guess I have to ask if it's worth it. Seems like a pointless waste of time and money - so unless it somehow turns the AppleTV into something useful.

[Taylor @ Jun 14th 2008 7:28AM]

Is an HDD going to cause any issues anyway?
It's not like you're gonna be waiting hours for videos to load anyway.

[lance @ Jun 14th 2008 7:32AM]

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/13/apple_forces_bathroom_escorts_on_wwdc_reporters.html
Did you engadget guys have this problem?

[fred @ Jun 14th 2008 7:38AM]

Is some piece of consumer electronics really worth this type of nonsense from a corporation? I know that a lot of Apple fans, especially those in the press, like to act as if they are all part of the Apple family, and are somehow personal friends with "the Steve" or "Steve-O" or whatever pet name they gave this guy, but they should honestly realize that they are just malleable and disposable cogs in their PR machine. Willing ones at that.

[phanbouy @ Jun 14th 2008 5:41PM]

liking OSX =/= loving apple

[Jesuz @ Jun 14th 2008 7:37AM]

32 GB is not enough for me

[Moose @ Jun 14th 2008 7:46AM]

Seems kinda silly considering the hard drive that comes with it is larger than a 32GB SSD (on both versions).

[David @ Jun 14th 2008 9:14AM]

That's what she said!

[David @ Jun 14th 2008 9:16AM]

sorry i didn't mean to reply to you, would have made sense on either the guy before or after you

[mushy @ Jun 14th 2008 8:00AM]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, huh, what happened, oh, you woke me up for that.

[indeed @ Jun 14th 2008 8:20AM]

C'mon Engadget, admit it, this one was pretty stupid.

[Some Kid @ Jun 14th 2008 8:29AM]

do only i know why they posted this: cause it is Apple related!!!!!
i love Apple but engadget, come on, this is getting out of hand with these useless posts that are related to apple
but especially because that 32GB ssd drive prolly cost more than either the 40 GB or the 160 GB models themselves, it was a complete waste of money by this guy
dumb ass

[Galley @ Jun 14th 2008 8:37AM]

I would like to see Apple come out with a 32GB Apple TV for the car. If it were flash-based, it could be much smaller. Someone suggested a 32GB iPod touch, but the beauty of the Apple TV is that it would automatically synch when I pull into my driveway. Not being hard drive-based would be best in a hot (and bumpy) environment like a car.

[David @ Jun 14th 2008 9:15AM]

That's what she said!

[Adam @ Jun 14th 2008 9:44AM]

fail x 2

lolz

[David @ Jun 14th 2008 9:17AM]

.. fuck, fix the reply system!

[waterwagen @ Jun 14th 2008 9:39AM]

That's what she...

nevermind.

[BlissX @ Jun 16th 2008 10:30PM]

And you had the nerve to tell me to fail less!
Alas, the table has turned. :P

Anyways, agreed.

[DvS @ Jun 14th 2008 10:20AM]

Engadget reader comments = trolls and fanboys...

and people who complain about trolls and fanboys...

and people who point out the people who complain about trolls and fanboys...

etc.

[fourthletter @ Jun 14th 2008 10:50AM]

Hey Ryan I'll send you some pics and an article of my pissing on an Apple TV.
It didn't help really but it had to happen eventually......................

[barry99705 @ Jun 14th 2008 10:56AM]

People actually use the drive in their appletv? Mine streams everything over from the much larger drive on my server.

[TheGasMan @ Jun 16th 2008 10:45AM]

People that hack it do.

[happy_penguin @ Jun 14th 2008 11:17AM]

I would have put a 120GB in that thing. T'hell with the SSD.

[Minilap @ Jun 14th 2008 11:49AM]

Oh engadget, when are you gonna learn to not post useless stuff.

[Christopher P. TOdd @ Jun 14th 2008 12:15PM]

it's obviously not useless as it has received about 42 posts thus far. For a long time now I have believed that "the anti-Apple" folks would not have much to do if they were not FORCED to comment on such "fluff". If I were the folks at Engadget I would be grinning from ear to ear as I thought up every Apple post.

[Minilap @ Jun 14th 2008 12:32PM]

I'm mac user and still find most of engadget's apple news useless. This one is a great example.

[LinuxMacWindows Fanboy @ Jun 14th 2008 9:44PM]

@ Minilap

yeah.... and the unboxing of the 3.06 ghz imac.....which was the same as the previous 24 inch imacs. pretty pointless.