Apologies for the delay in getting this write-up posted; by the end of yesterday evening I simply didn't have the energy left in me to sit down and try to do justice to what I witnessed Thursday afternoon.

Today, I'm happy to share with you my impressions of the Apple booth at MacWorld Expo 2006, San Francisco! (It was orignally going to be an all-enomcpassing post, but as I noted in the footnote... it wasn't going to happen. I seem to really be making of habit of writing incredibly long posts of late . . .)

After nabbing the registration priory codes late Wednesday night, we took off in the morning and got to the show floor in the Moscone South Hall at about noon. Right off the back, of course, I headed straight for Apple's typically massive booth, where as they did in the MacWorld I had last attended three years prior, had a stage equipped with a huge (presumably high-definition) display projection where the new Apple hardware and software packages were demoed to the crowds by enthusiastic and very professional-acting men and women; they were genuinely putting on a show about the product they were demonstrating and (with one possible minor exception) it really looked like they knew what they were talking about!

iMac
Arriving at the Apple booth, I discovered that despite the very large number (at least 40 in all, not including the rows of Macs demonstrating other Apple software) of Intel desktops and portables on display, each manned with it's own Apple rep, it was going to be a while before I could actually get my hands on a machine. So instead, we stood around the demo stage (as every seat was taken) and watched the last half of the iMac demo (Kong in 1080p HD) and bits from the Keynote (the Photoshop CS demo where Jobs ran an automated task to create a poster for Kong, of course demonstrating the seamlessness of the Rosetta engine for emulating the PPC instruction set... or whatnot. I was actually a bit more impressed by this demo than I was watching the keynote; the filters were running fairly quickly on a very high resolution image, and would absolutely more than suffice for just about any kind of Photoshop work not for print (i.e. web and digital graphics); great news.
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