Apple ScreamOk, so by now you have heard, seen, read or whatever about Apple’s new toys announced today.  In order to maintain everyone’s sanity, I’ll skip the “review” and just get to the point.  Am I the only one out there who seems to be disappointed…hell, lets just say it like it is – PISSED OFF?

<rant> I mean come on Apple, a new mini – we all expected that and has some spunk that makes it a really attractive buy.  I don’t think anyone will argue that.  But what I WILL be vocal about is the lack of a “real” media center device.  I want something like a damn Sony VAIO running Media Center edition of Tiger in my living room.  Who the flip is hard of hearing,  riding the “special” bus, or just simply an idiot that they aren’t getting the message over there?

OOOMPA LOOOMPAS AT THE MOTHERSHIP….WTF is going on over there?  Who the bunk is going to kick a home stereo to the curb for a boom box with an iPod dock?  I’m sure it sounds great, no arguments there, but I am hardly dumping my $10,000 worth of home theater audio gear over this thing.  This is like a great box for the park, a picnic, the beach or going camping.  Maybe if you live in a dorm or a shoe-box it might be a good thing too.  This thing is priced WAY to high for what I would have bought it for, which is a nice set of speakers for my OFFICE. Instead I just ordered a kick-ass set of speakers from Logitech for my office and it cost me $50, and trust me – they sound GREAT.  Hooked up to my G5 running iTunes at work, and it’s all I need.  How the hell loud do you think people are going to crank  up that iPod in the office anyways?  I don’t need a $350 speaker-box for that thank you.  And WTF is up with the overpriced “leather” cases.  SOMEBODY BETTER GET OFF THE DAMN CRACK PIPE AT CUPERTINO!

Seriously my digerati peeps.  I am really down with today’s announcements.  I swear on my dead poodle that I would have gone out and bought that damn video iPod TODAY if it had come out and had at least 100GB hard drive.  Let me say that again…APPLE PAY ATTENTION: the next video iPod HAS to have AT LEAST 100GB drive for me (and many others I know) to even consider it.  I already have 80GB of music and would really like to see a 120GB iPod, especially with all this new video content.

I’m not even going to get into the desire for a Treo 650 killer, tablet or a myriad of the other things we Mac nerds have been begging for.  I’m just over it.  How many people does it take to blog about something before a company LISTENS and just makes the damn thing?  Ok – enough.  And that’s all I have to say about that.

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