So when I finally convinced the wife to allow me to get a Playstation 3, it was largely under the premise that it was also an High-Def DVD player to go along with our shiny new LCD TV.  Of course, we were smack dab in the middle of the format war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and no one really knew which way it was going to go, so it made me a little nervous that the whole thing would blow up in six months.

There have been some big developments recently in the whole Format War between Toshiba (HD-DVD) and Sony (Blu-Ray), with it looking like Sony might actually pull it out, which in turn will make the Playstation 3 all the more popular because you’ll be getting an HD DVD player and a kick-ass video game system.  Which makes me even happier that I got one.

Check out this article on Gizmodo if you want more details on the whole situation, but it’s looking pretty good for Sony right now. 

So Apple announced today it’s brand-new super-slim notebook, the MacBook Air.   As with almost everything that Apple puts out, I said “Wow, that looks really cool, too bad it’s an Apple”.  Billed as the “world’s thinnest notebook”, it might actually be the first Apple product I opening lust for.  Sure, iPods were cool, but I quickly found an alternative in some really cool Creative products.  And I know the touch screen on an iPhone is really neat, but I honestly think it’s a little too obnoxious, and more about being neat for neat’s sake, whatever that means.  And I know it sounds incredibly shallow, but we all tend to identify ourselves with the gadgets we own, and by extension identify ourselves with other people who own the same gadgets, and in all honesty, I’ve never really wanted to be associated with most of the people who own Apple products.

That, and I work in IT and it always seems that their machines are designed specifically to NOT work with our systems.

And still, I can’t stop looking at this stupid, ultra-thin notebook.  Of course, there’s really no justification for dropping, $1800 on a laptop, just like there’s really no justification for dropping $500 on a phone.  But it looks pretty, and it’s technical specs aren’t that shabby either.

Now if I could only listen to Steve Jobs prattle on about it on the Apple website, I’d be golden.  Of course, the sound in Quicktime, itself an Apple product, isn’t working, which is probably a sign.