miniMac and iPod Shuffle.... *drool*

Okay, let's start first with the iPod shuffle. Wow... Apple has made an iPod that anyone can afford, and directly competes with the lower-end of the MP3 players out there (the iPod 10GB and up already dominate the upper-end). Wow... *drool*.

Okay, now the miniMac. I WANT ONE. It's so tiny! And yet, wow.. So affordable. Admittedly it's only a G4, and it only comes with 128MB ram (remember, Mac isn't quite so memory hoggish, but still, I'd bump it up to 256 at least). But it's still great, and I mean GREAT, competition for the lower-end computer market. Dell - watch out, Apple's decided that you're too big for your britches. So it doesn't run Windows, in MY book, that's usually a bonus (although EQ2 doesn't run on the mac, and even at work we'd keep a Windows Terminal Server lying around somewhere). But I'll let everyone else try it out first, and after the reviews start to come back, I'll review putting it in the budget somewhere this summer or something. We'll see.

Apple, it appears, has finally decided that they've got the high end, high price market, and that it's time to start competing with the mid-to-lower end market. I am SOOO drooling. (Okay, not really. But I keep thinking about it.) If Apple keeps this up, well, I was already considering an XServe for work (we need a new file server, and that's about all it needs to do ... for now), I may just re-evaluate them for my work's desktops..