I have been following the news yesterday over the announcements of the new MacBook, MacBook Pro and Apple LED Cinema Display.

On one side, I am very excited about the new MacBook and MacBook Pro (although the 2.8 Ghz model costs about 2500 euros!), but concerning the new Apple LED Cinema Display 24 inches screen, I am just so much astonished!

Everywhere on Internet, I read comments about how a great news this is to have a new Apple Cinema Display screen with LED technology, but common, are you guys so dumb?

I am a FAN of Mac and have been using their notebooks and ibook for years now, but here, I can’t help blaming Apple for this product:

• this new screen is 24 inches only, this is nowadays the almost “standard” screen size, there’s nothing big anymore in a 24 inches! 26 gets big, 30 inches is bigger, 32 inches will soon be the reference
• 849 euros!!!! Damn, I can pay myself a Sony or Samsung FullHD HDTV at that price with a lot higher screen size! Even the previous Apple 30 Inches monitor would seem “cheap” compared to this price! You can have great 24 inches Iiyama screens for less than 400 euros on the market now!
• This screen is like 95% the same as the one on the iMac 24 inches, so you better buy yourself an iMac rather than a Mac Book (Pro) + Apple LED Cinema Display

Well, so, the announcements were great, but I feel like in those hard times for the economy, Apple is once again playing the “we are targeting the rich elite, or at least the ones who illusionally want to be part of this society” card!

On my side, I will wait a few months before getting the new Mac Book Pro, for the following reasons:
- Snow Leopard will be out soon, and it’s better to wait it gets shipped for free in the mac than buying in a few month a new license at 100 euros!
- the new Intel i7 processors were announced for the 12th of November, so in about 6 months, there will be an upgrade to the new architecture: more power, more battery lasting time, less heating and all the usual “better stronger faster” marketing / technical speech
- no blu-ray drive
- the display port: ok nice, but I have to pay 30 euros more to get an adaptor to work on DVI/HDMI screens, which are now the standard!
- pay 20 euros more for the Apple remote …

Guys, don’t get fooled by Apple and all the bells and whistles of nice design and beautiful marketing speeches, but wait and see

The 2 cents from Uncle Seb, who, should I remind you (before you blame me), I am an addicted Mac user, but I kept my sense of logic and criticism instead of turning into a mac zombie ^_^

As planned, the site launched on monday

• 01Net: AlloClips diffuse des vidéos musicales gratuites avec publicité
• Aujourd’hui se lance www.alloclips.com
• Universal offre tous ses clips en streaming avec AlloCiné
• Numerama: Universal offre tous ses clips en streaming avec AlloCine
• AlloClips ou quand Universal Music et …
• Universal Music France et AlloCine lancent alloclips.com
• Universal Music et Allocine lancent ALLOCLIPS
• Universal Music lance un YouTube pour les clips de ses artistes
• Universal Music mitonne un site de clips musicaux inspiré de Hulu.com
• Universal Music lance son YouTube des clips
• Universal lance AlloClips

Cheers,
Seb

This week-end, I feel very happy and pretty much relieved, as in 2 days (Monday 13th October), the confidential project of Universal Music France that I had been involved into as project leader (through the company I work for) will finally be launched publicly!

This project was made possible only through the collaboration of the people at Universal Music, their partners and the members of my team, who will recognize themselves when reading this post. On total, more than 13 people (including me) worked on this project over the last 6 months, and we hope that all our efforts will make you use the website and come back very often onto it. Maybe it will also change your opinion on music when you will see it live!!!

In all cases, I would like to congratulate here everybody for their efforts during this collaboration to the project, and I hope it will be a HUGE success beyond our expectations

You can check on monday the website at the following URL: www.alloclips.com

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