Apple, you make me so happy!

Last night's media event is everything I was hoping for - yes and more.

For about the last 12 months I've been telling anyone who would listen that I was going to make a home entertainment unit out of a Mac mini. Then it became the Intel Mac mini with Front Row. I was really hoping that this release would include said item, and it did.

http://www.apple.com/macmini/ More Mac per square inch

The hard drive interface has been upgraded to Serial ATA which is great for recording video. It uses shared memory for the video however. Normally this would be a kiss of death, but with all these new Intel chips I don't know what's what any more!

Perfect for home entertainment. In the words of Larry Magid, "If I were Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer, I'd be keeping a very close eye on Steve Jobs." (CBS News)

The other great thing Apple has done is publish a Ruby on Rails tutorial on their developer site:

http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html

Sure it's nothing that you couldn't read elsewhere, but it is going to be seen as an endorsement of RoR by Apple - and that's nothing to sneeze at. Expect to see New York Times articles about how RoR is legitimised by Apple and.