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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Memo: Keep my day job…

Seems any job I could have based on prognostication should include where my next meal would come from.

Man - I got alot of that wrong. Apple came out with the mini, the shuffle and the office suite (and since when is 2 applications a “suite”?). I got the shuffle right, but let’s face it - I’d have to be deaf, dumb and perhaps dead to have missed that one.

The Mac Mini surprises me, not just at the price, but at the form factor. It makes a Shuttle PC look huge. Add the video adaptor and wireless networking and you’ve got an interesting box there in the living room. I see a port of Myth TV coming down the pike VERY quickly…

The office suite. Hmm. “So how many pages in that Pages document?” Could have been worse - they could have called it Document. I guess they’re going to hold back from attacking MS Office for a while more, which makes sense since buying an office system without MS Word, as the boss’s secretary would say, “ain’t gonna happen”.

All-in-all, fun while it lasted. Will I buy a Mini? Nope - no need. I’ll hold out a little while longer for a proper PVR.