I had gotten a Mac mini a while back for the sole purpose of sitting in the living room and acting as a media streamer to get my iTunes library (video and audio) from my main Mac that sits upstairs in my office. It is an Intel Mac with an 80gb hard drive and 2gb of RAM. Just your basic mini except for the RAM which to be honest I am not sure that I even upgraded in the first place. I had been pretty happy with the streaming and have had very few issues other than starting a movie or tv show. Nothing major just a few extra seconds of load time before it will start.

Then along came the AppleTV and I was not really into it. I had no intrest in anything with a 40gb drive, heck my iPod has an 80 in it. I was happy with the streaming and did not need anything more. I know the mini can do more such as surf the web, but I have a laptop and wireless and have only used the web (Safari) once or twice on the mini so losing that would not even be an issue.

But then Apple updated the AppleTV and added the 160gb drive and now it seems very appealing. I would now be able to actually use it and store my iTunes library (audio and video) and lose those load time annoyances. I am not sure what to do, I would have to sell the mini first to cover the cost so I would be without anything for a week or so then, but that would not be that bad.

Should I get the 160gb AppleTV and sell the mini or just stick with what I have?    Choices , choices.

This  also brings me to another point, I was pretty uninterested in the iPhone until the date was announced. Now that I know it will be available June 29th I feel I “need” it. But with the quick update to the storage on the AppleTV, I would hate to buy that first iPhone and have the same thing happen. Must resist iPhone!