Two great new Mac products

He did it! At the Macworld conference Steven Jobs introduced a couple of great new products. Among others the Mac Mini and the iPod Shuffle. The Wall Street Journal tested the "Shuffle and is full of praises:

In our tests, it fulfilled - and even exceeded - Apple's claims for convenience, battery life and song capacity. Sound quality is so good you can barely believe the music is coming from something so small. This is a good product that will enlarge the iPod's appeal, especially with kids, people on low budgets, or people who work out. We imagine some existing iPod owners will also buy Shuffles as sort of add-on players. And the iPod juggernaut will roll on.

The WSJ found that the tested iPod shuffle's battery lasted 15 hours and 44 minutes, a good deal longer than Apple's 12 hour claim. They was also about to store 188 songs on the device, 68 more than the 120 Apple suggests, without having to down sample any of the tracks. Cutting out the screen also has enabled Apple to undercut the pricing of its competitors. Also other experts are convinced the new products are going to be hot sellers. Yeah - PC users are finally getting a taste of the cult of Mac....