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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I want one of these! Watch the demo movies, it's amazing!

(via TUAW)

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This week I introduced Mac OS X (10.3.6) to a new co-worker who had been working previously mostly on Windows and a bit on unix, but never on Mac. His machine was due for a couple days after, so I created a new user on mine and gave him a two hours tour of the whole thing. I often could say that he was quite impressed by the look & feel and the user friendliness of it!

When we were done, I asked him how he felt about switching to Mac. His answer was "Now I understand why Mac users make it a cult. I just can't wait to get my hands on it!".

Makes him another happy switcher, I guess. :)

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