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The AppleTV OS Running on a MacBook

Posted in AV, Apple by Dan at 9:02 am
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Ok, we promise to make this the last AppleTV post for today – but I think it is really cool that you can get the Apple TV os running on ordinary Mac hardware. No Instructions as of yet, but they are sure to follow!

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8 Responses to “The AppleTV OS Running on a MacBook”

  1. Kevin says:

    Funny I can see the dock pop up at 33 seconds. I wasn’t aware the AppleTV had a dock.

  2. Jon says:

    Copy the harddrive of the Apple TV onto a USB drive. Plug in USB drive. Boot with alt key. Chose USB drive. I think that’s all there is to it!

  3. Olivier says:

    Jon I think you are overlooking what is done here. ON the Apple TV there is no Mac OS boot screen. I think this guy more or less customized a regular OSX install with the APple TV binaries and launch scripts rather than simply booting into Apple OS from a Simple target mode boot.
    Then again I could be mistaking, but that Mac OS boot screen kinda give it away

  4. mark h says:

    I’m presuming the Apple TV software is Intel? I have an old dual-G4 working as a media centre, and it would be awesome to get it running some sort of decent interface.

  5. R031E5 says:

    I don’t want to sound rude but both of you are wrong, first of all USB is NOT supported by the Apple TV’s EFI (some IO kext is missing or is not compatible) so you can’t just copy the content of the HDD.
    First of all you must fix the permissions, bless (not literally) the EFI so it can boot and insert some kexts into the system core.

    Nevertheless you can boot on Single User Mode in USB because the kernel is not yet loaded.

  6. Dylan says:

    And whats with the clicking?

  7. Mister Macphisto says:

    Maybe they have recorded a session of the Apple TV, set it to play fullscreen as a start up item with Automater or Applescript then installed cloned the OS onto the USB hard disk and booted from it.

    What do you reckon?

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