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by nickpeterson 64 days ago
The one that really bugs me is the Apple TV. It would be a great little box to use for terminals/thin client style work and there are a ton of old cheap ones. Having a $50 dollar used box that was low power and could run OSX would be great.
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Good news, just today a bypass was released to allow any EFI bootloader to work on the original Apple TV https://github.com/DistroHopper39B/ATV1sm
The original one does run a modified OS X Tiger. I jailbroke it a while ago to run custom stuff, but didn't do much with that. Just remember being able to VNC or SSH into it.
Aren't those Android boxes that you can get for less than $30 and then flash Linux (Armbian etc) onto a much better option?
Hell Apple’s latest monitors have an A19 Pro chip in them which are more powerful than the MacBook Neo.
They're more than $50 however.