There are people that played with LEGO bricks and then there people that still play with LEGO bricks. This Flickr pool of last weekend’s BrickCon is for the latter.

Mr. Munster released a report today that states Apple’s new MacBooks (the one’s that are being announced next week) will start out at $899 or $999. I wasn’t the biggest believer of an $800 entry point for Apple, so this seems to make a little more sense to me. The talk of the town the last few months has been a sub-$1,000 price point, which is more than likely, but not at the prices people are speculating. Like everyone else, I hope it’s as cheap as the rumors claim, but a $999 entry point on the MacBooks might deter me from dropping the dough.

“We expect the new MacBooks to be cheaper. However, it is likely that the new MacBooks will be a more premium product (with new aluminum casing and gesture-based touchpad),” he wrote. “In other words, we expect the new MacBooks to be a meaningful upgrade with an average selling price 9 percent to 18 percent lower [than today's models].”

He goes on to say that the MBP will be updated with a slimmer design and updated touchpad. He believes these will start out at $1,899. We should also be on the lookout for updated specs for the MacBook Air, he says.

via AI

Week dragging on? Can’t wait until Friday? This soothing gallery of BSODs in public and unexpected places should ease your suffering. The funny thing is that although these can be taken as signalizing a fundamental instability in Windows, I think of them more as a sign of the ubiquity of Microsoft products and computing in general. It’s a sign of the times, however you want to interpret it.

Tough times at Circuit City, which you can now buy outright for something like $38 and doing the CEO’s dry cleaning, as a credit agency has just warned manufacturers about shipping merchandise to the store. Seems the credit agency, Bernard Sands, isn’t sure whether or not Circuit City would be able to pay the manufacturers on time.

So… a store, which, by definition, is in the business of selling goods for profit, cannot afford the goods in the first place. The world is ending, my friends.

Image from Flickr

Look! It’s footage of Call of Duty: World at War multiplayer.

Also, agree or disagree: yes, this is a tired genre, but there’s something oddly comforting about hearing German yelled at you while hunched in front of your computer monitor.

You know what the world needs? No, not more gadget blogs; more iPod docks and Onkyo is pleased to help the cause. The CBX-Z20 AERO sound system is going to be released later this month and seems to be your standard AM/FM, CD, iPod radio. With the Onkyo nameplate though, the 50,000 yen player’s ($497 USD) sound and build quality should be above par.

The latest scaler from Anchor Bay is now shipping at $799. I know, I know, the price seems a little high, but a quality scalers can improve your HDTVs picture dramatically by taking in all of your sources random resolution and presenting your the TV one, properly scaled image. Plus, the EDGE’s six HDMI inputs and four RCA-type inputs gives you some room to grow your AV marriage-ending equipment collection.

AnchorBayTech via CEPro

The latest scaler from Anchor Bay is now shipping at $799. I know, I know, the price seems a little high, but a quality scalers can improve your HDTVs picture dramatically by taking in all of your sources random resolution and presenting your the TV one, properly scaled image. Plus, the EDGE’s six HDMI inputs and four RCA-type inputs gives you some room to grow your AV marriage-ending equipment collection.

AnchorBayTech via CEPro

Apple is sending out invites to an October 14 event to be held at its Cupertino campus.

Yes, it’s for those much-rumored new MacBooks. God-willing, we’ll be there.

Apple is sending out invites to an October 14 event to be held at its Cupertino campus.

Yes, it’s for those much-rumored new MacBooks. God-willing, we’ll be there.