MacWorld 2008

Can I just say that MacWorld Expo is one of my favorite events each year? It’s like Christmas and my birthday all rolled into one. (The embarrassing thing, though, is that I forgot it was today until I saw M’s post. Shame on me.)

Time Capsule looks pretty sweet, particularly the wireless bit. I have a feeling I’ll be saving up for one in the near future. (No more cords and cables!)

The iPhone stuff is cool but not all that exciting. Can’t wait till the prices come down enough that I can afford one, though.

I don’t watch enough movies to justify a NetFlix subscription, so the iTunes movie rentals will be nice for the once-in-a-whiles. (Especially if they get a really wide selection.) I am slightly confused about the rules — “You have 30 days to start watching it, and once you start you have 24 hours to watch and finish it. As many times as you want.” What happens if you don’t finish it within 24 hours? The first bit sounds like you’re out of luck, but then the “as many times as you want” seems to contradict it. Anyway, I’ve updated iTunes and I’m checking out Breakfast at Tiffany’s to see how well the system works.

Smart move with the Apple TV renting HD movies. It almost makes me want to get one and start watching more movies. Oh, wait, I don’t have an HD TV. :) The new UI does look pretty darn nice, though.

If I had lots of money, I would totally get both a Macbook Air (oh, gosh, they’re beautiful!) and one of the new 8-core Mac Pros. Match made in heaven, baby. And they’ve already got 64 gig SSD hard drives? Wow. Goodbye, moveable parts. And the Air is soooooo thin. Mmm. Mmm. Thou shalt not covet, Ben, thou shalt not covet.

Anyway, Apple’s not perfect, sure, but I love ‘em. :)

I saw the Macbook Air earlier this evening, and I’ll just say it’s a good thing application fees have left me broke enough that it’s not really a temptation. Talk about beautiful, though–I just stared at the picture for a good two or three minutes.

Ben, as I was reading the live blog of MacWorld I actually thought ‘I wonder if this will make Ben want to watch tv/movies.’ Actually my real reason for posting is to check and see if I ever told you that I interviewed with Apple in Cupertino. It was a good interview, but they were taking too long to get back to me and finally they wanted me to do another phone interview. In the mean time Capital Group needed to know and I really liked them, so I told Apple thanks but no thanks. I might have told you this whole story, if so then it is documented somewhere and my great great grandkids will stumble upon it and be happy (no, I do not write in my journal very often).

Katherine: LOL, yeah, it’s kind of out of my budget for a while, too. While the Air itself is beautifully exciting, I think half of the giddiness for me comes from the innovation it’s driving — innovation that will affect our lives in so many ways.

Thomas: :) I’m actually looking forward to checking out some of the musicals (The Fantasticks, The Man of La Mancha) I’ve never seen, so yes, this’ll make me watch more. But I’m still a book person through and through, and that’ll never change. :) A pity that it didn’t work out between you and Apple, but we can still be friends. ;) (So my blog is becoming your journal? Cool. :P)