Rig of the Day: Now that's a TV

Nice screen, I would like to buy one like that :)

those G4s are loud as hell! how can one keep something like that in his living room?
i like the tv, though...


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Wow, a rig of the day that's not a MacBook or a Mac Mini :P

Sweet. I'm getting this TV or a different Sony SXRD soon.

well now that you guys have posted a billion setups with mac minis hooked up to tvs, how bout an overview of the best way to go about doing it?

"I mean that thing can't even run Windows!"

Who wants to run Windows anyway?

Anyways, awesome setup, wish I had the budget to have a TV that big!

It's all coming together..the only way to get your rig chosen is to put TUAW on the screen.

@10: Or, like me, he just used whatever he had lying around. Which just so happened to be a g4 450. The machine is just fine for what he's using it for and it keeps it from the trash.

Um. That TV is worth how many times that old G4? 12x? I'm too lazy to look that pricing up, but that 12x figure is about right. That's some serious "I don't know what to do with all the money I'm overpaid" if I haven't seen it. Not busting balls. Just seems like if you're going to drop that chunk of change on a TV you would have a computer of comparable value.

I still keep around a G4-450 at home, and I've gotta say that with enough RAM, it certainly doesn't "feel" like a 7 year old machine.

In fact, it keeps up with my 12" powerbook pretty nicely, and makes a nice accompaniment as a desktop machine (packed full of storage, of course)

As another poster here pointed out, FCP 4.5 runs really well on it, even with the latest OS. Surprisingly well, in fact. Kudos to apple on that one.

I'm not so thrilled about iTunes 7 having so much useless crap that can't be disabled, but it's still not all that bad.

In terms of longitivity and usefulness, the machine's paid for itself at least three times over. I intend to hang on to it as long as it's still running (and right now, runs just about everything one would run on a newer mac).

(I've also got to brag that the hard drive has never been reformatted or repartitioned (nor has it ever needed to). There are a few OS 9 artifacts lying around on it. PCs hardly last a year before needing to be completely wiped)