Macworld 2008: (Partial) Overview

Apple and Steve Job's keynote speech for Macworld this year has come up with some tasty new technologies! You guys will know that I'm no Mac fan, but I love my iPods, and little by little I'm beginning to take to my Mac G5 too. I just love Garage Band!

Anyways, Jobs mentioned 4 new things to unveil this year, and I've only watched the keynote vid up to the third unveiling, which happened to be the iTunes movie rental thing and Apple TV Take 2. All the media frenzy is on item 4 of course, the new Macbook Air.

I'll comment on the Macbook Air on a different post. On the other three items, I've pretty impressed with both the new iPod Touch extras (maps, mail etc.) but wished they'd given it away for free, and also with the Apple TV changes. I might just get an Apple TV now, just so I can watch podcasts and rent movies from iTunes! The Time Capsule thing is a very neat idea too.. why doesn't anyone in the PC world think of such cool things! I'm still manually backing up my files and stuff to external USB drives.. and it's a pain to catalog everything and do things using Windows Explorer. Mental note: either find some decent backup software for Vista, or get OS X Leopard onto my Mac and use Time Machine with Time Capsule.

Now I understand why all the Apple fanboys are so enthusiastic about their company. They DO make cool stuff! Now.. how about a 3G iPhone with GPS?..