So the hype is iBook. However, as I look around I am truly amazed. For the past 4-5 days vendors have been rallying around iBook with product release after product release.

VST announced a dozen different products for iBook alone. Griffin Technology is making iBook microphone adaptor--think great voice chats and voice dictation on our little iBook. Then you have "iStrap" to "carry different"--think carry more comfortably. This is one of my favorites because its just not meant for the iBook, but for any USB Macintosh--USB TV Tuner from from Eskape Labs, called "MyTV"--think no need for a TV to hog space in my already small dorm. These are just to name a few, there are many more. The power of USB is really benefiting the Macintosh.

Then you have the press in general. The only real negative press on the iBook has been it won't be out till September, and Devork's latest column--what can you say, you can't please the unpleasing. Newsweek has an excellent read on Steve Jobs and the iBook, they even got Steve to comment on what he thought of Pirates of Silicon Valley--check it out here. Time Magazine refers to Jobs as "the great unknown." So Bill you keeping an eye on the "great unknown"--maybe you learn something about style. At any rate, it is great to see positive press about the iBook and Apple in general from a press that was preparing to sign Apple's death certificate just two years earlier.

We also have Apple putting it's money were its mouth is by making $100 million dollar investment into Samsung to get those LCDs out faster. Analysts are predicting 500,000 iBooks sold in the fiscal year of 2000. As for me, I wouldn't be surprised if we see double that number. I think we will see many students and consumers choosing iBook as their everyday computer system--thanks to the powerful G3 and the nice AGP graphics that lie within.

My friends the renaissance of the Macintosh continues with iBook.