The mini mac is gorgeous - definitely my new living room system. I'm sure a lot of them will end up in cars also.

The iPod shuffle is a trivial piece of hardware (though quite cute) but if the rumours of 5 million pieces to meet initial demand are true then I guess Jobs is expecting to pull off one of his legendary strokes of marketing genius. I doubt any other manufacturer has ever sold 5 million of any one player, let alone as a channel fill. I'd guess their software effort was near zero, compared with three years of painful DSP development on the same platform at Rio.

Rob