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...aside the better part of the morning to set up Logitech's Wireless DJ Music System. There's a USB transmitter that plugs into the PC, a remote control with 100-meter range, and a charging station that you connect to a sound system or boombox. With three distinct, potentially tricky components, I was prepared for a slow trudge towards harmonious functionality. Instead, I was grooving to my tunes...
...tunes, I mean songs I bought on iTunes. That's right, in addition to unprotected MP3s, the Logitech Wireless DJ lets you stream purchased tracks that were carefully locked down by the good folks at Apple (plus those secured in Microsoft's competing rights-managed formats). It's a can't-beat-'em-join-'em strategy: The practically invisible Logitech StreamPoint simply tells the iTunes and Windows Media Player software what songs to play. When the music starts, the software streams it wirelessly through the USB transmitter to the receiver waiting at your sound system...
...MacBook continues Apple's move towards an exclusively Intel-based lineup, and while a lot of software now runs directly on the new chip (for instance, Logitech's mouse and keyboard drivers), there are two major hold-outs, Adobe and Microsoft. You can use most of their programs on the new Macs, but they run only with help from Apple's invisible Rosetta software translator. My wife, an avid user of Office apps on her new employer-issued MacBook Pro, says that when she has several Office programs running simultaneously, she notices delays in typing and other subtle sluggishness...
...best reason is that the current version includes a media remote control. I've played with Microsoft's more advanced remote, as well as Logitech's Harmony remote built for the Xbox, and while both are quite nice, they don't do a whole lot more than the one that's included-for a limited time-in the $400 system configuration. If you can get that remote, you won't have to memorize a bunch of controller commands to play DVDs and music. (All of the remotes suffer from the same flaw, not being able to scroll through long lists...
...Although its sound quality was noticeably inferior, Belkin?s TuneStage did get one thing right-it drew juice from the iPod?s own battery, so its streaming adapter was smaller and didn?t need to be charged. The Logitech adapter?s universality has a drawback: it has its own battery, which must be charged. You get around 8 hours of life per charge, though, and you can charge it while playing, so it?s not the kiss of death...