What a surprise! Apparently the so-called iPod Killer will never kill anything (except maybe some of its users?). Here are some quotes from The Chicago Sun-Times' review:

"Avoid," is my general message. The Zune is a square wheel, a product that's so absurd and so obviously immune to success that it evokes something akin to a sense of pity.

The overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face.

The setup process stands among the very worst experiences I've ever had with digital music players. The installer app failed, and an hour into the ordeal, I found myself asking my office goldfish, "Has it really come to this? Am I really about to manually create and install a .dll file?"

The Zune is a complete, humiliating failure.

Read the article for more about incompatibilities, DRM, pricing scheme, etc. Looks like it's the best present you can offer to someone you hate. :)

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Unsanity releases final versions of WindowShade X 4.1, FruitMenu 3.6.2 and Application Enhancer 2.0.2. All of these are Universal Binaries and free upgrades. Congratulations, guys!

(Via Unsanity.org.)

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I received my Mac Pro yesterday, thanks to the company I work for, and I have to say that I love it! It's super fast, of course (takes only 30 seconds or so to boot and applications launch instantly), but I think what I like the most is how incredibly quiet it is. Basically, my external FW drives are noisier than the Mac, now. The difference with the QuickSilver it replaces is just amazing. Like night and day.

And the Cinema display is amazing too. Since I've got it, my other monitors (which seemed perfectly fine to me) have suddenly become awfully dark and yellowish.

Some specs, just to show off:

• 2.66 GHz
• 2 GB memory
• 1 160 GB drive
• 1 500 GB drive
• 1 SuperDrive
• 1 ATI Radeon X1900 XT
• 1 Cinema Display 20"

Now you can hate me. ;->

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