I’ve been thinking about all the sweet new technology coming from Apple lately.  It has given me some things to drool over, and to consider.  For a while I was thinking about getting the Apple TV.  Now I am unsure.  First off I think it would be pretty sweet.  But I haven’t really gotten into downloading movies from iTunes.  Of course if I had the Apple TV I would probably get into it more.  But then there is the $$ factor.

Another factor in the Apple TV is the Hard Drive space.  It’s only got 40 gigs in it, aka 50 hours of video.  That’s not a lot.  If I’m going to jump into the digital age and do digital movies, etc. I would want to be able to store more than 50 hours of video.  Just taking a quick inventory of my movie collection I have WAY more than 50 hours of movies.  So space is limited.  (Also, the Apple TV syncs with your iTunes… so that means everything is on your compy as well as your Apple TV).

So those are my thoughts on Apple TV.

The new Airport Extreme looks cool too.  Basically the two things that have me interested: USB External HD, and 802.11n.  The speed boost would be fun to have.  The external HD would be sweet in the fact that anyone on your network could share files.  You could put all your pictures on the external HD so they’re not taking up space on your compy, and anyone can see them.  (And with the N technology you could probably run some programs off the HD). However it appears to me that with this Airport Extreme they have taken out Air Tunes and put it into the Apple TV.

The other thing in all of this is that I will be getting my old Desktop compy back from my brother.  It’s an older machine, but it’s got a 40 gig HD, AMD 800 (or so) processor.  I’m thinking of buying a TV tuner card and putting MythTV on there.  So in a way it would be similar to a TiVo, and sort of like an Apple TV?  Of course I couldn’t download movies from iTunes and watch them on the MythTV (at least I’m pretty sure I can’t), but I could probably import DVD’s and watch it from my compy (is that legal?), and have music on there and listen to it through my stereo.

So are there any thoughts on what I should do?  Should I go with one of the Apple Products?  Or should I go with my old compy, and buy a larger HD for it?  Or other thoughts are always welcome!