Do not eat iPod Shuffle
Yeah, okay, I'm into Mac stuff, sorta. So when I read on Slashdot that the MacWorld Expo site went down and they had neat stuff on it, I went to apple.com to go "ooh" and "ahh" at the new stuff. Here's what I see:
- iPod Shuffle -- bubblegum-sized audio device that holds three to four times as much crap as my POS Rio S50 and costs about $100 less. My question is, does it have to shuffle? Or can I put songs on it as I normally would? Because if I can pick what songs go on it and don't have to worry about it mixing the order of crap around, I think I might get me one of these (well, okay, no, I'm going to save up and get a real iPod, simply because I have almost 15GB of music and even a 1GB iPod Shuffle would not be sufficient for my uses -- it'd be as annoying as my Rio S50).
- Do not eat iPod Shuffle:
- iWork is at least an order of magnitude better than any version of Microsoft Office for any operating system. Looking at screenshots makes me wish I had a Mac (I would seriously consider spending $400 on an OS if OSX was avaliable for x86 or x86_64)
- Apple Macintosh Mini looks good, although I think that it might be too low-end for most people. Then again, most $499 Windows PCs are considered low-end (they're graphically underpowered, use Intel Celerons, etc.), so I'm not too worried. Now if we can just get Apple to start sending some of these suckers to Best Buy and such, we might just get people to stop using Windows ☺. The only bad thing is this: it does not include a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. Which means that you spend an extra $30 to get the Macintosh keyboard and mouse (you can use a Windows keyboard; it's just not the same experience as a Macintosh one), and somehow acquire a monitor -- no cinemagraphic screen, but then again, underpowered Windows machines don't have that either ☺.