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Well, Apple today introduced blazing fast new PowerMacs, including a liquid-cooled Dual 2.5Ghz G5.

I don’t have any MIPS MFLOPS SpecInts or anything like that for you, but I do know they are pretty dang fast.

A year or so ago there was the indication that Apple would be getting away from big product announcements at trade shows, developer shows and the like. It looks as though this has come to fruition. Even though WWDC is less than a month away, they’ve had two big product announcements in the past week.

It takes some of the excitement away from MacWorlds (if they continue, even) but it also helps Apple out quite a bit in terms of expectations. As in, “all the rumor sites said there would be new iMacs! But there are no new iMacs!”

Well, I’m looking forward to playing with one of these badboys. I wish I could find a job in which I would have the pleasure of working on one of these machines…

Wow Wow Wow! AirPort Express

People ask, “A.J., why do you use Apple, PCs are just as good.”

This is why.

Sure other companies make stuff like this. No other company makes products like Apple does with an unreal sense of design, integration, and style.

I wonder how this device will compare to the iTrip, for which I wrote a quick review. It’s called the PodFreq from Sonnet.

It appears to have a few things going for it that iTrip and other FM transmitters don’t have.

• An external antenna.
• External Controls for the frequency

I don’t actually have a 3rd Generation iPod, so I will have to convince one of my friends to purchase a PodFreq so I can check it out. Unless of course someone wants to buy me a new iPod?

Alpine Launches World’s First Car Audio Head Units to Allow True Integration with iPod

“Alpine’s iPod Ready in-dash receivers will allow iPod users seamless control of up to 10,000 songs easily in their car,” said Stan Ng, Apple’s Director of iPod Product Marketing. “Being able to display song information and browse the iPod’s entire music library right from the Alpine head unit makes this a superior way to enjoy non-stop music in the car.”

I’ve been waiting and wondering when someone would develop something like this… too bad I have a first generation iPod. Oh well, I’ll add it to the list of gadgets.

This is one of the more disturbing things I’ve seen. It’s Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a clip titled, (not by me) Dance Monkey Boy

Enjoy.

This is a really fun article about the iPod, with really good quotes from Steve Jobs about Michael Dell trying to dance… The Guts of a New Machine

Whether the iPod achieves truly mass scale — like, say, the cassette-tape Walkman, which sold an astonishing 186 million units in its first 20 years of existence — it certainly qualifies as a hit and as a genuine breakthrough. It has popped up on ”Saturday Night Live,” in a 50 Cent video, on Oprah Winfrey’s list of her ”favorite things,” and in recurring ”what’s on your iPod” gimmicks in several magazines. It is, in short, an icon.

The title says it all. If you are not some sort of freak about user-interfaces, this may be way too much. But suffice to say, I ate my soup and read this tonight.

It’s strange to have gone from years of uncertainty and vaporware to a steady annual supply of major new operating system releases from Apple.