Being a Mac-o-phile today was much like being Republican before 1994

The best was when my old roommate who is an off-the-record liberal complained to me that the media was biased against Apple Computer and the Mac.

"Welcome to my Personal Hell," I told him.

If you've ever complained that you were in the oft-persecuted minority of being Republican, I side with you. I take a lot of shit for being right-minded, especially here surrounded by Bay Aryans.

But I take just as much shit, maybe even more, for owning a Mac.

So I sit here, watching with intrigue the reverse-chronological updates from the MacWorld SF's keynote address by Steve Jobs... Here's what I think is the most important development, which will actually get me to buy something...

(updates from macrumors.com)
lights come up to Black Eyed Peas
that's it - all done
Mayer finished playing
store back up - but under HEAVY load
Mayer still playing
http://www.apple.com/home/
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
http://www.apple.com/macmini/
http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
John Mayer - up for 2 grammy's - for 'fathers'
welcomes Mayer back on stage to play song
keynote winding down - store still closed
thanks developers and engineers for working so hard
makes iPod available to a LOT more people
iPod Shuffle ad
dock & case available - $29 each
http://pictures.hentges.lu/tmp/shuf.jpg
dock available
shipping today
2 models - 512 MB - 120 songs - $99
1 GB 240 songs - $149
250 MB
charge in the car
manual filling or automated
integration between the device and the jukebox
autoplay
shuffle or playlist
12 hours on battery
cap covering inputs - USB
simple to use controls
weights under 1 ounce
ipod shuffle - built around shuffle playback - its TINY.
something happened in the ipod market - became most popular way to listen - shuffle
want to make something really great
forget batteries - no need to make music hard to find on player
next?

html mine, but holy shit, an apple quality sub-$150 mp3 player?

I realize that it's kinda shitty that you can't select which song you want to play as there's no screen, but luckily for me, my mp3 collection is sleek and trim despite its being almost eight years old.

holy shit, and now they've updated the apple site... wish me luck getting in, maybe ordering? hmm. crap, really the only site i can go to right now is blogger. which doesn't help me at all in purchasing an ipod shuffle. and ipod-shuffle.com still isn't up yet

Apple to the Core,
Tio Jaime Poke00210 (my old Marathon handle)