Funnily enough, I completely disagree with the author's preference of the Chrome hardware over the Apple hardware.<p>The Apple hardware fits neatly into my entertainment center. It's small, the light is unobtrusive, and the power cord is a cord, rather than a brick. The ethernet cable gives me a solid, reliable connection.<p>The Chromecast, however, has a much brighter light. It flashes incessantly when it can't connect properly, which it can't when plugged in behind my receiver. (It also would have been completely useless in my old condo, where the 2.4 Ghz range was so crowded as to be unusable.) So then it goes back behind the TV, where the included extension is too short to properly flex 90 degrees. The USB power either sticks out from the side of the TV, or is yet something else to fish down to the power strip, far away from the wall-mounted television.<p>Don't get me wrong - I really like the $35 device. It's going to be great next time I travel; I'll bring it rather than the HDMI dongle for my tablet for before-bed Netflix viewing. But the author's negative points about the AppleTV are easily resolved by a $3 HDMI cable from Monoprice.