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It turns out that all the hacking to get windows to work on an intel mac was a little pointless as Apple has now released their own way of running Windows on the new Intel Macs.

It’s called Apple Bootcamp.

Pretty amazing, time for me to save up some money and think about ditching a pc all together… yet I don’t think I ever would.

There is now new iPods out. Some good points..it also comes in black!

It has a 320 x 240 pixel, 2.5-inch, 260,000 color display, 20 hours of battery life, and supports playback of H.264 and MPEG4 at 30 fps. Has TV out and will come in both 30GB and 60GB versions, with the 30GB version being 31% thinner than the current 20GB iPod and the 60GB version being 12% thinner than the current 20GB iPod. The 30GB will hold up to 75 hours of video and retail for $299. The 60GB version will hold 150 hours of video and sell for $399. Both will ship in one week. from: engadget

Take a look at list of features
I’m quite glad that I bought the Nano when I did, even though I knew I wanted a 60gb iPod. I told myself I would wait until Christmas, so that turned out for the best. The whole “video iPod” thing has been circling around for a couple months. Including hidden features withing iTunes 5 for video. [side note: iTunes 6 is out]

Related releases: the new iMac G5 with the Apple Remote and FrontRow which is a new way to manage your media . Looks pretty cool, I would like to see it in action.

Overall a good week for Apple releases…
For more, visit these sites:
Gizmodo
Engadget
of course Apple.com

If you didn’t notice already, all new iPods have color screens for not too bad of prices.

The simplified lineup features a new 20GB color screen model for $299 (the same price as the older monochrome version), a 60GB model for $399 ($50 cheaper), and an updated iPod U2 Special Edition with a color screen for $329 ($20 cheaper). The company has apparently dropped the 30GB iPod photo model, which sold for $349. (From iPod Lounge)

This makes me want to get one pretty soon. Yes I have an iRiver with a beautiful color screen and lots of other features that the iPod doesn’t have. Yet I still want an iPod. Why? The user interface. The UI that has won the hearts and minds of millions of people everywhere. It’s easy to use, yet very fuctional. So if you are in the market for a new iPod, the color ones are at a decent price, and if you don’t want a color iPod, the old ones are getting cheaper by the second. Then there is always eBay.

Also, one other thing to note, iTunes 4.9 is out not with the new podcast feature. You can subscribe and download and listen to all your favorite podcasts. I wonder how this will affect ODEO(which is an awesome service by the way) If you think back a little ways, I was talking about podcasting as it was really starting to gain attention. Now it will be getting alot of attention, especially since Apple is. Wired has done many articles on the topic. Now is the time of podcasting… I’ll probably write another post on podcasting soon.