Apple TV (1st generation)

Steve Jobs called it a hobby. For once the modesty was accurate. The first Apple TV ran a 1GHz Intel Pentium M, held a 40 or 160GB hard drive, and worked by syncing content from iTunes on your computer over the network, which made it an iPod for the television rather than anything more ambitious. It could not stream from the internet on its own at launch. Apple added rentals and direct purchases in a software update a year later, which helped. It ran hot. The hard drive was the loudest thing in the room, and it sold in numbers Apple never disclosed, which tells you enough on its own.