New powerbooks

This morning, Apple announced two new powerbooks – a 17″ and a 12″.

The 17 is just gratuitous. Sure, it looks nice – how big a monitor do you need to schlepp around with you? How much can you afford to lose if you drop the thing? Love the auto-adjusting backlit keyboard tho.

On the other hand the little 12 is cool, slightly smaller than the iBook I’m using. I’d still like it smaller, of course, a Mac version of the Sony U3. I’d have one of these by now, if I didn’t have to run Windows on it (shudder). Of course I love my iBook, especially so since I can run the web server, mysql and php for application development.

Oh, and new and improved versions of the iApps. Final Cut at a reasonable price. And a new browser, which I’m using now. And an Apple version of X11 which they didn’t mention but the Unix geex appreciate it.

I bought some Apple stock the other day, for the long term. It’s the only computer company I actually like. In fact, I think they should be making consumer electronics products – VCRs, DVD players, home stereos, clocks, whatever. Heck, most of their recent products look sort of like sex toys anyway (not that I’d know) (not that there’s anything wrong with that!).

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