When AppleTV came out I was psych'ed. Not so anymore after I thought about it. The disk space is small. You cannot put too many movies on it without having to shuffle them in/out of iTunes and/or clicking/unclicking the check boxes so that you don't sync too many movies to overflow the AppleTV. Basically, AppleTV is yet another iPod that hooks up to your TV. It does not even have GigEthernet. So transfers are slow. I love the Apple Remote (very simple), I also hate it because it's too simple; fast forwarding through movies is painful. My solution was to buy a "opened box" Mac mini core solo for $350 and use that instead. So I get GigEthernet, 60G disk (I added another 200G USB external) and I don't have to use iTunes to sync movies; plus, I get a whole computer device that I can use to show say youtube videos on my TV or use other video apps that can play mpegs, and other things AppleTV won't play. Don't get me wrong -- I'm a big Apple fan but AppleTV falls short.
I'd like to see how big the transmitter is. Does it fit on the back of the iPod as well as plug into the doc? or is it a thin device on the bottom? It is cool though. $129 is a bit too much for me. I think about $50 is where it should be.
This is the kind of product we've grown to expect from Microsoft. Hopefully, with minimal features, it will not be so buggy then we can say it is more stable than iPod and maybe they have some advantage. It's sad that Microsoft has gone so soft.
I think it's more meant to be something "cool" rather than a useful piano. For $130 could be a "cool" toy.
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