Home media / music servers and wireless streaming to HiFi.

[Shady Pioneer]

The benefit I get is I can access my Mac mini from anywhere when I'm out and set it to download something, and it'll be sorted for when I'm home.

Illegal torrents? 

No of course not. I buy from iTunes occasionally so that's helpful. If I did download torrents, I wouldn't openly admit on a public forum that I do (I don't).

[damien010685]

I went a bit extreme with my set up but I wanted to do something that will hold up the text of time and just run in the background.

I've got a Mac mini running iTunes 24/7 with a 2TB HDD with all my media on, hooked up to my TV but rarely used directly. I have an AirPort Extreme hooked up to the network to that basically allows me to beam all content to Apple TVs, iPhones, iPads etc without a hitch.

Because I'm completely anal about things I did it this way because I love my Apple stuff and wanted to embed metadata to each film/show so it all comes up when scrolling through and what not. Very slick and easy to use but just pricier than other options out there.

The benefit I get is I can access my Mac mini from anywhere when I'm out and set it to download something, and it'll be sorted for when I'm home.

I can access my files anywhere as well and XBMC which is free finds all the info on music films and tv series in detail with correct thumbnails etc   only reason i chose the Q190 over the mac mini was i got all 3 for nearly the same price as 1 mac mini and the mac mini just isnt as good with xbmc

[bobbarley]

My cheapo NAS drive is Polkast, iTunes and Twonky compatible, which is nice 

[bobotheclown]

You can download stuff from iTunes too. I bought the latest jack reacher audio book fr iTunes but accidentally deleted it from the phone. Apple were really good and let me re-download it again