Some people are naysaying Apple for their latest product announcements. I am not one of those people.
Apple just released a new series of iMac G5s today; some of the amazing new features include: a built-in high-resolution video camera, built in infrared and wireless remote for controlling digital media applications (with audio line out and VGA, S-Video or composite-video out for connection to a larger display or TV), some cool new software, and a heckuva lot of processing power (both the G5 CPUs — 1.9 or 2.1 GHz — and the hefty 128MB PCI-E video card!). It also comes with (built-in) a 17 or 20" LCD display, a mighty mouse, a keyboard, etc. etc.
Bottom line: If you go to Dell's website, max out pretty much every option you can, and pay about $3,000, you'd get a computer that came close to being as good as the iMac (but the iMac only costs $1299 or $1599, and is cheaper for educational customers). This computer is amazing! If I had some money, I'd probably sell my iBook and get the iMac as soon as I possibly could.
In other news, Apple is now making a video capable iPod, and iTunes has been updated to 6.0; big whoop-de-doo, I say. I don't think the video iPod is ready for the world yet... but that's just my opinion. I'm sure a bunch of people will buy them anyway.