Nintendo Wii 11.19.2006

Nintendo announce their plans to release the Wii today. It will be available 11.19.2006 for $249.99 and will be packaged with Wii Sports along with the revolutionary Wii remote that is wireless and has gyro effects to control your games. The Wii will also play Gamecube games and will have something they call the Virtual Console which will allow you to download classic games from the NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, and Turbo Graphics from $5 to $10 from their free online solution call Nintendo WiFi, the same that Nintendo DS players have been using for the past year. Get ready for a console battle this Christmas, PS3 is supposed to be out around the same time and of course the Xbox 360 has been available since last November. Place your orders now!

It's Showtime

That was the theme of today's Apple press conference. Apple released a slew of iPods, updated iTunes, and started selling full length movies. The Shuffle was completely redesigned with an aluminum casing and with 1 GB for $79. The Nano saw the most changes, first in the form factor, now it comes in an aluminum casing like the old Mini and in multiple colors. Starting off at $149 the Nano is 2GB and only available in silver, next you have the 4GB version available in silver, green, blue, and pink for $199 and lastly the 8GB version available in only black. The full size iPod comes in the white or black 30GB $249 and 80GB for $349. Apples music player iTunes was updated to version 7 and now has a friendlier way of finding your movies, music, and podcasts. Also it now offers CD cover pictures for your tracks when you encode your music, which is something that most people I know complained about. Today marks the start of feature length movies being available on iTunes. The movies currently are only available from Disney and range from $9.99 to $14.99. I don't really want to say what I think about buying a movie for my computer/iPod and another for my DVD player. Also, what happens to your movie collection when your hard drive bites the dust. Well, Apple is all set for the holiday season, let me know if you pick up any of the new iPods and make sure you download iTunes, but the most interesting thing was a device that is currently being called iTV, it is a device that hooks up to your TV via HDMI, Component, or Composite and will receive your videos being sent from your wireless Mac/PC iTunes similar to what the airport express and will be available in Q1 of 2007.

Chelsea's Atown Rap

My first YouTube post, enjoy and thanks to Carey for the video.

24" Apple iMac

Apple released a 24 inch (1920 x 1080) iMac today, it starts at $1999, comes with a 2.13 GHz processor, 4MB Shared L2 Cache, 1 GB ram, 250 GB HD, SuperDrive. It can be upgraded with a 2.33 GHz processor, 500 GB HD, and up to 3 GB of ram. I am thinking with that 24" HD screen, maybe we will see movies in the iTunes Store soon. If your in the market for an iMac, place your order quickly.

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