Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

If you were curious as to why Boxee suddenly became available for OS X 10.4 users, here’s your sign. The underpinnings of the Apple TV are indeed based on Tiger, thus paving the way for Scott Davilla, a developer for the aTV-bootloader project, to announce that Boxee and XMBC can now be installed on Apple’s set-top-box. In order to take advantage, you’ll need the aTV Flash bootloader on a bootable USB drive, an Apple TV and the software in the links below. Currently, things are setup to run on Mac only, though PC / Linux versions are promised for next week. After signing up for a Boxee invite, jump on past the break for the step-by-step guide to getting this going.

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

2007 is definitely shaping up to be the year of the desktop OS: between Vista’s much ballyhooed and better-late-than-never launch (and subsequently pending SP1 release), Apple’s behind-schedule but super hyped release of Mac OS X Leopard, and unlikely upstart and fan fave Ubuntu’s forthcoming Gutsy Gibbon launch. So, what’s it gonna be?

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