MacWorld

Written: January 7, 2004
Last Updated: January 11, 2004

It's that time of year again. The Mac faithful descend onto MacWorld San Francisco.

This year's MacWorld featured the iPod mini, newer XServes, and updates to iLife. Add it all up and you're looking at a far smaller MacWorld than in previous years. I will dread the day when the conference fits in either the South or North Hall but not both. I think Apple would prefer that MacWorld just went the way of the Dodo. They have their Apple Stores and probably don't want to be tied to releasing new products four times a year (i.e. MacWorld SF, Paris, Boston/New York, and Tokyo). Jobs said in his keynote, which I saw via a QuickTime Streaming web cast instead of going to one of the Apple Stores, that this year would be a great year. It is after all, the 20th Anniversary of the Macintosh!

I ran into quite a few people whom I know at MacWorld this year. Along with my sister and Erik, I ran into fellow SNUG member Rosie, Newton owner Dale Steele, Palm colleagues Carl Stone and Sasha Golovin, and Scott Gruby. I saw but didn't speak to David Pogue (he was surrounded by a throng of listeners at the O'Reilly booth) and Jaron Lanier. I also spoke with Jim Rose at the Canon booth and Steve and Mike at the Nikon booth. The PMA tradeshow is coming up in February and rumor has it that Canon will be announcing a successor to the 1D. It's hard to believe that I've had mine for over two years.

I've purchased some dubious products at MacWorld, including a Visoneer Paperport. Man, what a useless piece of junk! I vowed not to buy anything, but I succumbed to a great price on a Contour ShuttlePro. The ShuttlePro should make my video editing tasks a lot easier, and I see myself using it far more than I did my Paperport!

Enter The Photo Gallery

Reader Comments

Ah, Macworld. Haven't been to one in about 7 years. I'll have to get to one before they become nothing more than Maclore. BTW, the Paperport served its purpose... at the time. I loved mine. It was great for quickly archiving bank statements and such. Alas, when ADB became a dinosaur, I had to trash it.

--posted by Aaron @ Monday, January 12 2004, 13:51 pm EST

Adam:
Excellents pics as always! Once again it was a kick to connect with you at MW. I enjoyed catching up on your projects and plans and look forward to doing so next time if not sooner. I was sure you had your sights (lens?) on one of those G4 ibooks....

Take care,

Dale
p.s. bring your newt next time!

--posted by Dale @ Monday, January 19 2004, 23:36 pm EST

Adam, I went on Friday the 9th, saw that guy with the Newton shirt on Friday too! Last year too! Same shirt.

I tend to remember Newton shirts and stuff ;-)
See ya at SNUG

Greg

--posted by Greg Wayman @ Saturday, January 24 2004, 13:17 pm EST


Nikon booth	Rosie and his iPaq	Erik and Edna hold up iPods
Dale Steele	Sasha Golovin	Carl Stone
XServe's	Jim Mackraz clone	The iPod mini
David Pogue	A Newton shirt!	Edna and Erik
Scott Gruby	Edna and me (by Erik)	Jaron Lanier (with Edna providing cover)
Jim Rose at the Canon booth	Apple presentation	Edna and me with iPod poster (by Erik)
MacWorld San Francisco	Yerba Buena Gardens