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Have you heard about Apple CEO Steve Job’s latest appearance on Saturday Night Live? They’ve posted a video of it over at PhuseBox.  Steve Jobs SNL Sketch.

The class action lawsuit against Apple over the iPod nano has expanded with new complaints from international customers. The Seattle law firm handling the case tells me they have heard from disgruntled consumers in every U.S. state and 15 countries who claim the nano screen is of poor quality and easily scratched. Class action suit […]

All my reporting today is on the Mac mini. Here’s my Free Press review, played on Page One. My bottom line assessment:
I’ve had a mini to try out since Friday, and it’s impressed me greatly. This is no weakling computer. It’s a full-fledged Macintosh that can do most everything I can on my $2,000 PowerBook, […]

Check the photos in my MOBlog in the right hand column. Click on any to see larger.
But… so far… the process just couldn’t be easier.
I’ve plugged an old Dell 17-inch flat screen in and an old Apple keyboard I had lying around and a three-button Microsoft mouse.
I flipped the power on, downloaded some programs from […]

Seth sure seems to think so. Potential switchers need to know.

Forget the criticism over no display screen. The Shuffle is one hot product. The Shuffle offers the simplicity and ease of use that Apple engineering is so justly famous for.
Here’s my Front Page review of the Shuffle from today’s Freep. MIKE WENDLAND: Apple’s latest tune player comes with sense of style

I just celebrated my two year anniversary of being - near as I can - an all-Mac operation in my personal computing.
Ten overwhelmingly positive experiences have kept me strongly in the fold:
No spam - There is no better spam filter than Spam Sieve. It’s a Mac-only product and it catches 98 percent of my junk […]

Never before have I seen such interest in all things Mac. There is not a day that goes by now that I don’t hear from one or two people who have had it with Windows.
Yesterday’s introduction of the $499 Mac mini will only increase the movement.
Steve Jobs is brilliant. I predict tens of thousands of […]

I know we need some time to fully digest all the great Apple announcements today. But the new Apple iWork suite has excited me the most. I can tell you right now, I’d stand in line to buy this software. Bring it on, Steve.

And here’s welcome news confirming our big buzz item of the last month - there really will be a $499 Mac!MSNBC - Apple unveils low-cost Mac, iPod

Whew! The hype surrounding Apple and Steve Job’s keynote at Macworld Tuesday is huge.
Speculation is we’ll see a cheap, flash-based iPod, a so-called “headless” Mac that will sell without a monitor for under $500 and a new productivity suite of software dubbed by the rumor sites as iWork.
Then again, except for the flash-based iPod (which […]