Apple-flavored home entertainment

Remember hi-fi's? (I'm dating myself in saying we had one when I was a really little kid.) Apple's bringing them back in its stylishly new/retro way. At least in name. Steve Jobs just announced the $349 iPod Hi-Fi (aka "iPod boombox" or "home stereo"), "an all-in-one speaker system housed in a case roughly the size of a shoebox," the New York Times reports. Apple is moving into home entertainment big time, Larry Magid of CBS News (and SafeKids.com) reports, with the iPod Hi-Fi and the new Mac Minis Steve also introduced. The Minis "are unique not only because they have Intel processors and are up to five times faster than the previous version … they connect to TV sets and are able to stream video, audio and photographs from other Macs and Windows PCs in the home directly to a TV set. Larry goes on to describe the products' pluses and minuses in detail at CBSNews. Here, too, are PC magazine (calling the Hi-Fi a "boombox") and USATODAY.