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The best is that you can buy the Apple TV in two sizes! 32 GB and 64 GB. Why you ask? Can the bigger one store more stuff? No, everything’s in the cloud! So wha

The best is that you can buy the Apple TV in two sizes! 32 GB and 64 GB. Why you ask? Can the bigger one store more stuff? No, everything’s in the cloud! So what’s it for exactly? Who knows! But it’ll cost you an extra $20 and won’t even come in a different color like the “Pro” keyboards and mice. For a fun exercise go ask an Apple store employee this.

jc__denton 7y ago
Additional app storage and the ability to store/download media in apps that support it.
- dvdbloc 7y ago
  How many apps will I have to install to run out of space on my 32GB Apple TV? Curious how many people this has actually happened to...
  - zuppy 7y ago
    Now, with Apple Arcade, it is very easy to run out of space. It made no sense at the beginning, though.
  - Razengan 7y ago
    Maybe it's there in case you run out of swap for Electron apps.
- tolmasky 7y ago
  From my (admittedly now hazy) understanding, everything in Apple TV land is supposed to be purgeable. So nothing should stop working on a 32 GB Apple TV unless it for whatever reason needs 64 GB of data on disk. This will of course mean that the 64 GB model is faster in caching scenarios, but it’s IMO an unnecessarily complex decision for an already expensive product in the space ($179 for 32GB!)
  - kkarakk 7y ago
    It's for games, apple tv supports a lot of games that are modified for the large form factor and can get quite large(like crossy road)
globalproctd 7y ago
Apps and Games, genius.
- tolmasky 7y ago
  Oh, because people are regularly installing the 7.8GB Xcode update? Aside from the fact that I doubt anyone downloads that many apps, from my understanding Apple TV makes you use on-demand resources for anything above 4GB. That means that old resources automatically get flushed out, so the actual benefit of those extra 32GB is more of caching-feeling behavior.
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  - threeseed 7y ago
    I use Infuse with my NAS and it uses GBs of local storage for caching previews and thumbnails. There are quite a few storage hungry apps least of all the screen savers.
anyfoo 7y ago
Apps, e.g. games?
jonny_eh 7y ago
With Apple Arcade and recently added support for Xbox and PS4 controllers, space may become a constraint.
- tolmasky 7y ago
  When the Apple TV first launched, you were limited to 200MB of an initial download and 20GB total counting later-downloaded on-demand resources. These on-demand resources in theory automatically get flushed out, so the HD space serves more like a cache. So the 32/64GB has a very tenuous relationship with performance before, and now that it's been raised to 4GB install probably will not be nearly enough space. It's a weird device.
riversflow 7y ago
I’m fairly certain that it will hold more of screensavers (at 950MB each), and they are honestly my favorite part of the device. If you don’t have broadband the idea of a bigger cache of content seems worth a nominal fee.

jc__denton 7y ago

Additional app storage and the ability to store/download media in apps that support it.

dvdbloc 7y ago
How many apps will I have to install to run out of space on my 32GB Apple TV? Curious how many people this has actually happened to...
- zuppy 7y ago
  Now, with Apple Arcade, it is very easy to run out of space. It made no sense at the beginning, though.
- Razengan 7y ago
  Maybe it's there in case you run out of swap for Electron apps.
tolmasky 7y ago
From my (admittedly now hazy) understanding, everything in Apple TV land is supposed to be purgeable. So nothing should stop working on a 32 GB Apple TV unless it for whatever reason needs 64 GB of data on disk. This will of course mean that the 64 GB model is faster in caching scenarios, but it’s IMO an unnecessarily complex decision for an already expensive product in the space ($179 for 32GB!)
- kkarakk 7y ago
  It's for games, apple tv supports a lot of games that are modified for the large form factor and can get quite large(like crossy road)

globalproctd 7y ago

Apps and Games, genius.

tolmasky 7y ago
Oh, because people are regularly installing the 7.8GB Xcode update? Aside from the fact that I doubt anyone downloads that many apps, from my understanding Apple TV makes you use on-demand resources for anything above 4GB. That means that old resources automatically get flushed out, so the actual benefit of those extra 32GB is more of caching-feeling behavior.
- deleted 7y ago
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- threeseed 7y ago
  I use Infuse with my NAS and it uses GBs of local storage for caching previews and thumbnails. There are quite a few storage hungry apps least of all the screen savers.

anyfoo 7y ago

Apps, e.g. games?

jonny_eh 7y ago

With Apple Arcade and recently added support for Xbox and PS4 controllers, space may become a constraint.

tolmasky 7y ago
When the Apple TV first launched, you were limited to 200MB of an initial download and 20GB total counting later-downloaded on-demand resources. These on-demand resources in theory automatically get flushed out, so the HD space serves more like a cache. So the 32/64GB has a very tenuous relationship with performance before, and now that it's been raised to 4GB install probably will not be nearly enough space. It's a weird device.

riversflow 7y ago

I’m fairly certain that it will hold more of screensavers (at 950MB each), and they are honestly my favorite part of the device. If you don’t have broadband the idea of a bigger cache of content seems worth a nominal fee.