we got something that looks a bit like one of those pre-Macworld Photoshop mockups stuck together by one of those Apple fanboys. As well as being ugly, the new iPod Hifi, at £249, costs rather more than the lead that runs out my amplifier, which does the job of connecting iPod to speakers at the moment chez Tosh… * It also screws the iPod third-party accessory makers who have done a pretty good job thus far. Apple keeps doing this.

When are they going to give us the damned TV? Maybe we’re expected to work it all out using the new Mac mini… it just seems a little un-Apple to me.

* Note to passing pedants: yes, I know that my hi-fi will, all told, cost more than this. And I’d agree that one must mark this thing at least partly on its audio quality, which may or may not be superb. But you can also buy a pretty good amp and speakers for £249, if you head on to eBay or down to Richer Sounds…

[Update: I'm suffering from Post-Traumatic Apple Event Disorder]

• BROWSE / IN TIMELINE
• « Ginny finds a decent photographer, at last
• » “Disable comments 90% of the time”

• BROWSE / IN Apple
• « Apple to switch to Intel?
• » Supply and demands