Finally, Apple have updated the 15 inch Powerbook, giving it the same features as the 12-- and 17-inch models, and finally replacing the Titanium (with its easily-chipped paint) with brushed Aluminium.

It occurred to me, as I was sitting on IRC watching the news filter across various networks, through some people who deliberately stayed up through the night to be awake while Steve Jobs gave his keynote in Paris, that Apple is really the only hardware company in the world that can get this level of interest in what are essentially incremental upgrades.

Then it occurred to me that I was being just as fan-boyish as everyone else. Grrr. It's at least six months before I can afford to replace my Powerbook. Damn you, Apple, for making such cool things.

(In other news, they have a new Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse (yes, Alan, a one-button mouse), Panther still has no firm release date beyond "before the end of the year", and iChat AV will interoperate with Windows videoconferencing software soon)