From Reg Hardware:

CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday took the wraps off two Mac Minis based, respectively, on Intel Core Solo and Duo chips, said to be four times faster than their predecessors, plus a sound system that docks iPods and plays iTunes.

This is the first recent Apple product announcement I can think of that has been seriously unimpressive; I had a fortune-telling fish at Christmas that predicted Intel-based Mac Minis, while the iPod Hi-Fi has been done before by other manufacturers with less bulk and at a lower price (even fucking Bose charge $50 less for theirs).

And that’s it, other than some leather iPod cases (which cost ninety-nine fucking dollars).

The only thing remotely interesting about this little lot is that the Intel Minis now have Front Row so you can hook one up to your TV and use it to view video from over your network. For, um, many times the price of a hacked Xbox running XBMC.

Ho-hum.

PS. I wrote this post before the one that appears below but due to my inability to correctly click “Publish” instead of “Save” this one appeared second, just in case you thought I was being callous for posting this after stating I was going to go and listen to some Linda Smith MP3s. What can I say? I worry about things a lot.