Front Row now working on other macs!

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strawberrystrawberry
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Engadget has the story

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The new iMac G5 might be the only Mac that officially runs Front Row, Apple?s kind-of sort-of Media Center competitor, but since when has officialdom stood in our way? That?s right, never ever. TUAW has all sorts of wonderful deets on running Front Row on various Macs, including video of a Mac mini in action ? fulfilling its long time media center destiny. Everything seems to run rather smoothly, so at least you can strike processor speed from your list of reasons why Apple is holding back from releasing a legit version of Front Row into the wild.





I'll try this on my Rev.A iMacG5 tonight and see how it goes

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    strawberrystrawberry Posts: 181member
    55 views, no one has anything to say? I thought it was pretty interesting.
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    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    Doesn't work in 10.3.9.



    I didn't expect it to either.
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    mynameheremynamehere Posts: 560member
    Really leads you to wonder why Apple didn't just include it on every Mac as standard...that would be incredibly awesome on a PB...hello dorm room (yeah, I need a laptop for college, so iMac is out of the question)
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    k squaredk squared Posts: 608member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by mynamehere

    Really leads you to wonder why Apple didn't just include it on every Mac as standard...that would be incredibly awesome on a PB...hello dorm room (yeah, I need a laptop for college, so iMac is out of the question)



    Because they want to sell more iMacs? And also, since the idea is to watch/use it from a distance of >10', a remote would be nice. And since the iMac is now the only Mac sold with a built-in IR receiver, Apple would like to sell more of them.
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    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    this works pretty good, I must say I am impressed with the preformance on teh mac mini. and I cant wait till i get my new cell phone and can control it remotly via BT
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    mynameheremynamehere Posts: 560member
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    Originally posted by k squared

    Because they want to sell more iMacs? And also, since the idea is to watch/use it from a distance of >10', a remote would be nice. And since the iMac is now the only Mac sold with a built-in IR receiver, Apple would like to sell more of them.



    Well, how about selling more PB's, which sell for much more and have (I believe) higher margins? Anyhow, building in an IR reciever should be a piece of cake for Apple's engineers...hell my 5 year old Palm Pilot has an IR reciever...
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