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Today was a lot like Christmas. It was a crisp, beautiful Saturday — blue skies, perfect temps and endless sunshine. (Just what the Doctor ordered.) And a friend of mine who had been coveting a Mac Mini for some time took the plunge. Amen! Another convert (and another kickback for me from Apple HQ).

[For $599 you get a 1.42 GHz G4 processor, 80 GB disk storage and DVD-playing/CD-burning combo drive, all in the tightest, most portable package available. (Plus a bunch of Apple software and, of course, the pièce de résistance OS X.) Sounds like Apple is ready to make headway into the lower-priced computing market. All you need to add is one figgity-fat stick of DDR RAM to complete the package.]

Alan was smiling and giddy like a little kid the whole ride back. Plus he was cradling the computer in his lap as if it was a newborn (which, in a way, it most certainly is). It was hysterical. Best wishes to Alan and his new baby. (And since he now has a Mac, we can expect a bunch of kick-ass shit on his websites any day now.)

I didn’t buy anything (thank goodness!), but I did have a fun time joking around with the saleswoman. We wanted to record this historic purchase with our fancy digital cameras, but were informed that Apple does not allow any photographs to be taken inside their stores. As soon as the shutter clicked, giant, robotic gorillas descended from the ceiling and began pummelling us about the head and neck. We barely made it out of the store, but we got what we came for.

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