New and Noteworthy: Review: Apple's refinements postpone a revolution; Top 25 PCs ever: Macintosh Plus (#4); more

Review: Apple's refinements postpone a revolution Writing for the New York Times, David Pogue reviews Apple's announcements this week, concluding "Once again, Apple's service is far simpler, better-looking and more consistent than its rivals'. Movies are incredibly easy to find, browse, preview, download and play back on your computer or iPod. Each movie consumes about 1 or 2 gigabytes and takes 60 to 90 minutes to download, although you can begin watching after only about three minutes. The movies even come with embedded chapter markers, just as on a DVD." More.

Top 25 PCs ever: Macintosh Plus (#4) In its ranking of the greatest PCs of all time, PC World pegs the Macintosh Plus at #4. "Apple sold the Mac Plus until 1990, making it the longest-selling Mac model ever. By then, it had received cult notoriety via a cameo in the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home . Today, working Mac Plus models sell on eBay for about $25. Non-working models have found an entirely different afterlife: they've been reincarnated as fish tanks." More.

BusinessWeek: Unanswered iTV questions BusinessWeek says some questions remain about the iTV after Apple's introduction. "Forgive my skepticism, but this is all on the come. It could be really important, assuming it delivers what is promised, works simply, meets Hollywood's demands for content protection, etc. But the devil is in the details. Devices of this sort are called digital media adapters, and I think I have tried every one of them. I have yet to see one that I would buy, or even use if it was given to me." More.

Previously on MacFixIt:

• Name disambiguation: New video iPods are Fifth-generation (Late 2006); New iPod nanos are second-generation
• iTunes 7.0 (#2): Problems transferring movies, games on original 5G iPods; AirTunes streaming, store issues? Enable IPv6; more
• QuickTime 7.1.3 (#2): Kernel panics; RTSP video stream problems; Downgrading to an earlier version of QuickTime; more

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