Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, unveiled some new products today at a press conference. The highlight of the event is the new Mac Mini based on Intel chips. For $600 you get a 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo, 512 RAM, 60GB hard drive and DVD/CD-RW drive. For $800, your get 1.66GHZ Intel Core Duo procesor, 512 RAM, 80GB hard drive and SuperDrive dual-layer DVD burner.
If interested in trying out Apple, this is a good start. Decent price, decent performance in a nice little package that takes up almost no space. However, gaming machine this isn't. The graphics card, Intel GMA950, uses shared memory. If going to do gaming you would first need to upgrade the RAM to a gig and even that wouldn't help on games where frames per second are crucial. but then Apple isn't know for its gaming. Unless planning on playing Worlds of Warcraft on an Apple computer, its almost a non-issue. For now I am going to wait. The price point isn't sweet enough for me to sacrifice gaming.
Also announced is something called the iPod Hi-Fi Stereo. It basically looks like a black and white old style speaker with an iPod dock on top. It supports the iPod remote (that continues to work only in line of sight). It is also $350 big ones and will connect to your TV. Frankly its not worth it. If going to get a speaker at that cost you might as well go BOSE or a full surround sound system that can play iPod and do much more. Apple is on the right track with sound systems but adding what amounts to $150 extra to the cost because they added "iPod" to the title is a rough start.
Finally Apple also introduce its official leather iPod case...for $99. Yep a silly case that almost costs as much as a Nano. Also calling it a case is being generous. Its actually the same sleeve that comes with iPods only made out of leather. Once again, because it has the name "iPod" attached, Apple is charging about 3x more then its really worth. I guess this is just another example of what an iPod lover tolerates but I will spend my money elsewhere thanks so much.
If want some more info, screenshots and little hand-on information, Engadget.com has all the info.
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