Fresh from the Apple Tree

Color me bleh over the latest gizmos from Steve Jobs. The iPod Shuffle seems a sensible expansion of the fetish toward those peripatetic souls for whom even a iPod Mini is far, far too bulky. OK there, I suppose.

But the Mac Mini will require a stop at an Apple store for some poke around time to be able to tell just what it can and cannot do. For example, it looks like you cannot rip out the modem and stick your own wi-fi card in the sucker. And a modem? Why?