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Macworld - Day 1
January 17, 2008 01:25 AM Filed in: Random
Thoughts
Well, by the time I finish posting all this I will
have been up for 22 hours straight. And to be honest,
I'm not all that tired. I'm no longer speaking
coherently, hopefully I'm typing coherently, but I'm
running on adrenaline here. I only had an opportunity
to spend a few hours on the floor today. The show
closes at 5 and once we got to the hotel, checked in,
and grabbed some lunch it was nearly 3pm. But I do
have a few thoughts and impressions from my first day
on the floor.
First off, the MacBook Air - Wow. That pretty much sums it up, wow. I had the opportunity to play with one briefly and learned a little more about the device. Although it's not the right device for me, right now, it's am amazing piece of technology and I can't wait to see how it evolves. First off, this thing is TINY. The pictures don't do it justice but until you pick it up you don't realize how light 3 lbs is. The keyboard feels good and the screen is very clear. My only problem with the device is that it is designed to complement another Mac in your household, it will probably not suffice as your only mac. Only 1 USB port, a non-user replaceable battery, no built in optical drive and only an 80GB hard drive and 1.6 GHz processor means that this mac is good for traveling light, but not a replacement mac for the average consumer. Though I did learn a few things about it today. Most notably, you CAN boot the MacBook Air from a CD when the CD is in another Mac. How Apple does this from a technological standpoint I don't now, probably magic is involved. But in theory at least, you can boot your from a CD or DVD wirelessly. I still think this may pose some troubleshooting problems, especially if you're having trouble with your mac all these fancy features may not be working properly. However there's always the option to boot off a USB drive and I suspect we'll see companies coming out with USB drive utilities in the near future.
The new Apple TV software is great, I cannot wait to get my hands on this update. The demos they're doing seem flawless, but I notice they're all using the same material which leads me to believe the two week delay is more related to adding content than it is to finishing the software update itself. One thing I did learn that gives me some concern is that if you rent a movie on your Apple TV you can NOT sync that movie back to your Mac or transfer it to a portable device. If you rent on the Apple TV you watch on the Apple TV. Similarly, if you rent the movie from your Mac you can move it to an iPod or iPhone but you can NOT move it to the Apple TV. From a practical standpoint, I don't see this being much of a concern for me as I plan to watch and rent all my movies on my Apple TV and not my Mac. But I don't see why Apple felt the need to put this limitation in the software.
I only had a chance to browse the exhibit hall today to get a lay of the land but I have a game plan to go back tomorrow with my Zoom H4 audio recorder and my Canon PowerShot SD850 to make sure I get lots of audio and photos for you. I'm going to post the photos as a batch up to flicker each night, but I will not have time to do any editing or organization. I'm just throwing them up there for you to see. Once I get home and have some time to catch up I'll go through and edit them and try to do some labeling. But for now, they're just up in the flickr stream. You can find them up on http://www.flickr.com/photos/themaccore/
However, far and away the best part of the day was The Mac Observer's Cirque Du Mac Party. The Mac Podcasters had an unofficial meet-up and I finally had a chance in person to meet Adam from the MacCast, Victor from the Typical Mac User, Don from Screencasts Online, David from MacSparky, John from Mac Tips Daily, Ken from Mac OS Ken, and Dave and John from The Mac Geek Gab. These guys were great and I am so thrilled to have finally meet them in person. I can't wait to have a chance to talk to them more at the Mac Podcaster Meet-up and Mingle tomorrow night. Also, gotta say the Macworld All Star Band- awesome. They put on a great show for us.
That's all for me tonight, I'm off to bed but I l can't wait for a full day on the show floor tomorrow!
First off, the MacBook Air - Wow. That pretty much sums it up, wow. I had the opportunity to play with one briefly and learned a little more about the device. Although it's not the right device for me, right now, it's am amazing piece of technology and I can't wait to see how it evolves. First off, this thing is TINY. The pictures don't do it justice but until you pick it up you don't realize how light 3 lbs is. The keyboard feels good and the screen is very clear. My only problem with the device is that it is designed to complement another Mac in your household, it will probably not suffice as your only mac. Only 1 USB port, a non-user replaceable battery, no built in optical drive and only an 80GB hard drive and 1.6 GHz processor means that this mac is good for traveling light, but not a replacement mac for the average consumer. Though I did learn a few things about it today. Most notably, you CAN boot the MacBook Air from a CD when the CD is in another Mac. How Apple does this from a technological standpoint I don't now, probably magic is involved. But in theory at least, you can boot your from a CD or DVD wirelessly. I still think this may pose some troubleshooting problems, especially if you're having trouble with your mac all these fancy features may not be working properly. However there's always the option to boot off a USB drive and I suspect we'll see companies coming out with USB drive utilities in the near future.
The new Apple TV software is great, I cannot wait to get my hands on this update. The demos they're doing seem flawless, but I notice they're all using the same material which leads me to believe the two week delay is more related to adding content than it is to finishing the software update itself. One thing I did learn that gives me some concern is that if you rent a movie on your Apple TV you can NOT sync that movie back to your Mac or transfer it to a portable device. If you rent on the Apple TV you watch on the Apple TV. Similarly, if you rent the movie from your Mac you can move it to an iPod or iPhone but you can NOT move it to the Apple TV. From a practical standpoint, I don't see this being much of a concern for me as I plan to watch and rent all my movies on my Apple TV and not my Mac. But I don't see why Apple felt the need to put this limitation in the software.
I only had a chance to browse the exhibit hall today to get a lay of the land but I have a game plan to go back tomorrow with my Zoom H4 audio recorder and my Canon PowerShot SD850 to make sure I get lots of audio and photos for you. I'm going to post the photos as a batch up to flicker each night, but I will not have time to do any editing or organization. I'm just throwing them up there for you to see. Once I get home and have some time to catch up I'll go through and edit them and try to do some labeling. But for now, they're just up in the flickr stream. You can find them up on http://www.flickr.com/photos/themaccore/
However, far and away the best part of the day was The Mac Observer's Cirque Du Mac Party. The Mac Podcasters had an unofficial meet-up and I finally had a chance in person to meet Adam from the MacCast, Victor from the Typical Mac User, Don from Screencasts Online, David from MacSparky, John from Mac Tips Daily, Ken from Mac OS Ken, and Dave and John from The Mac Geek Gab. These guys were great and I am so thrilled to have finally meet them in person. I can't wait to have a chance to talk to them more at the Mac Podcaster Meet-up and Mingle tomorrow night. Also, gotta say the Macworld All Star Band- awesome. They put on a great show for us.
That's all for me tonight, I'm off to bed but I l can't wait for a full day on the show floor tomorrow!
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