If you want to keep all the menus on your DVDs, then it's much cheaper to buy a 400-disc changer than it is to buy hard drives and take the time to rip all your discs. Of course on the Mac I don't think there are any solutions for controlling the external changer right now. I know the former Slink-e hardware does it, but the only Mac software I've seen for it supports music only.

I suppose you'll have to wait until some much better software is relesed for the Mac... But that's all I'm saying.

Bruno

You can do video conferencing fairly easily in iChat together with an iSight. The picture quality from an iSight is better than most webcams because of the auto focus.

So I went to the Apple store in Manchester yesterday. Had a go on all the new intel machines and the new iPod HiFi (Total waste of money, bass is boomy and distorted!).

Overall I was impressed, in relation to the new macmini the new dual intel was much faster than my current G4 1.42. All the worries about the intel gfx are unfounded, the output is sharp and slick, desktop ripples are very very smooth and scrolling through an iPhoto library is much much slicker than on my current machine.

The machine does tend to hang during some operations, this seems to be until the program is fully loaded into memory, so for example opening and then closing iPhoto the first time takes an age (it took about a minute to exit) but then opening an closing gets faster each time, I repeated this with other apps and saw the same results. It is something I have never noticed on my G4. I assume it will be sorted with future updates?

I am going to get one of these new machines, they are faster in general use than the old G4's. It was a top of the line machine though

Cheers

Cris.