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My favorite company has done it again! Taking a poke at Microsoft’s crazy pricing scheme for Vista, Apple will be shipping Mac OS X Leopard in October with the following:

Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, $129.

Nice ey? Windows users also get a taste of Safari 3 Beta, Mac OS X’s built-in web browser. If anyone is still thinking of buying a PC out there, don’t! It’s simple, get a Mac. You get to run the world’s most advanced operating system (Leopard’s a good 5 years ahead of Vista) and a host of other operating systems, including Windows Vista on frankly the best designed machines on the market.

Speaking of design, Apple has realigned it’s website to be in tune with Leopard’s look. There are plenty of good looking scripts and features on the site and I’m sure many web developers have already started looking at the underlying code. I know I have!

So a couple of weeks ago I finally got this Toumani Diabate album I’ve been waiting for the good people at Apple to get onto iTunes and it was definitely worth the wait! So as it goes with most iTunes purchases, I found out that other favorites of mine had released new albums. If you’re a fan of great African Music from the finest African musicians, be sure to check out Toumani’s “Boulevard de l’Indépendance”, one of the greatest albums I’ve ever picked up! Other fine pieces of musical work I got were Salif Keita’s “M’bemba” and Césaria Evora’s “Rogama”, another fine offering from the Barefoot Diva!

Sadly enough though, we lost a great griot in Ali Farka Toure this year, but to experience the genius that was and will continue to be Ali Farka Toure take some time to pick up “In the Heart of the Moon”, his last collaboration album with Toumani Diabate. Farka Toure’s final album called “Savane” is out as well, but I haven’t had a chance to pick it up…