Apple love in the EW Pop Culture Gift Guide

My old buddies at Entertainment Weekly (hi Wook!) have put out a holiday shopping guide with a twist: the concept is "what would you buy for your favorite TV characters?" Unfortunately, only shows currently on the air were eligible, so my dream of sending Buffy Summers the million-candlepower flashlight she SO NEEDED must remain unfulfilled. *sigh*

Anyway, the EW crew did include a bit of Apple kit in the gift mix, but perhaps not the item you'd think of first. Shopping for Dr. Christian Troy of the plastic surgery nauseodrama Nip/Tuck, they suggested the black MacBook along with a Slingbox AV as a roaming MD's ideal video combo.

So where were the iPods in this gift guide? Absent: not an iPod was featured, not even a Shuffle. There is another DMP from another vendor, in a fetching shade of brown, listed as a gift for The Office's Jim Halpert... but this is the Unofficial Apple Weblog, and we don't need to mentionthat productagain. (Today, anyway.)

Update 11:28 am: As noted by several readers, the Jim Halpert (not Halpern) character on The Office already uses an iPod. So, that "other" music player, really not such a great gift for him.