Apple just played their hand. An iMac with a remote control and home entertainment software. Why is no-one else talking about this? All the feeds I’m looking at right now are talking about the video iPod … fuck the video iPod, look out for the updates to Front Row, here comes the digital hub, and it’s going to be as easy to use as an Mac.
Update: Mr Gruber has his groove on, as usual.
The full-screen UI of Front Row is just begging to be hooked up to a TV. Begging. Now that there exists a “video iPod”, the next new “Apple has to be working on this” mega-rumor is going to revolve around how Apple plans to bring this Front Row UI to your TV. What’s interesting about this is that while Apple has a reputation for making spectacular announcements, their long-term strategy for a media entertainment platform is unfolding incrementally.
I’ve been putting it off for a while until the .0 bugs were ironed out, but impatience got the better of me the other night and I placed the order on the Apple store anyway. Delivery arrived this morning. Looks like that’s my lazy weekend ruined.
There won’t be too many updates for a while. My Powerbook (leon) finally died last night. Won’t boot past the OSX loading screen before it kernel panics and hangs. Priority right now is to salvage the hard drive and recover my work files.
And Sods Law says that it died just as I was about to do my monthly backup. Fucking typical!
Todays mood is: depressed.
Got into the office this morning and went through the usual routine of unpacking my Powerbook from my bag. Damn thing has a crack in the bottom of the case. Shit!
I’ve always been attached to leon (for that is his name) and it’s taken this latest incident to show just how attached I am. The wee fella is my workhorse, local development server, mail server, graphics studio and now with iTunes he’s become a bit of a home entertainment center too (3 solid days worth of music — would be more but I’m running out of disk space).
Is it sad that a piece of consumer electrical equipment has managed to worm its way into the center of my life?
Anyway, I’m not ready to put him out to pasture yet, and even if I was I can’t afford to, so I’m looking at places like powerbooktech.com to see if I can fix it myself.
Of course, if someone wanted to buy me a 15″ Powerbook with backlit keyboard and SuperDrive then I might change my mind.