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It takes a lot to impress the Wall St. Journal’s Walter Mossberg, whose role as the world’s highest-profile and probably most influential reviewer makes his a tour de force within the tech industry. Well, if you’re an Apple employee or investor, Mossberg is your best friend today with an effusive review of the much-anticipated Apple TV. Here’s a small snippet of his praise:

“We can easily recommend it for people who are yearning for a simple way to show on their big TVs all that stuff trapped on their computers. We tried it with various combinations of Windows and Mac computers, with movies, photos, TV shows, video clips and music. And we didn’t even use the fastest wireless network it can handle. It performed flawlessly. However, it won’t work with older TVs unless they can display widescreen-formatted content and accept some newer types of cables.”

As a recent convert to Mac-nation, my initial impression is I want Apple TV (and no, this isn’t a shout out to Apple Canada for a demo unit). With a MacBook on my desk and a 50″ television about 15 feet away, the idea of having a well-designed product to easily connect them would be amazing. As Mossberg points out, Apple TV is far from perfect (40GB drive is too small, for example) but it’s a small price to pay if it works as well as advertised.

For more, check out Live Digitally, who doubts Apple can dominate the living room like they’ve done in the MP3 market, as well as Thomas Hawke, who has a top-10 list on why the Apple TV (he calls it the iDongle) is not for him.

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