The weather out here has been great, high 50s to low 60s with no rain and no wind. Each year it has been my tradition to head down to Cupertino to visit the Apple Company Store and pick up a few items. In the past, Dave and I have done this together, however, he didn’t arrive this year until Monday afternoon making a joint visit to Cupertino impossible. So this year, I convinced Maria to take the trip with me.
It was a great drive down to Cupertino and we enjoyed the extended time together in the car. We dropped into the Apple store, picked up a few items and then headed back to San Francisco so I could pick up my registration materials.
We met Dave at the Bart in Pleasant Hill and settled in for the evening. We had an early morning considering we needed to be on the first Bart train from Pleasant Hill at 4:17 am. We met up with some friends already in line and waited with them for about four hours before entering the main conference hall to hear this year’s keynote presentation by Steve Jobs.
I was about 50% on my Macworld predictions this year. I really wasn’t expecting an Ultra Portable Mobile Computer (UPMC) but that’s what Steve presented as one of the four items of his keynote.
It’s a slick device and I would love to have someone buy one for me, but I love my MacBookPro, so I don’t need an UPMC. Maybe if I was still working for IBM and was traveling weekly I could use one, but that’s not my life these days.
I like the announcement of iTunes Movie Rentals and I want to try it out soon. I have this gift card at the iTunes Music Store so I will use it for a movie rental. The only downside is I don’t have access to a reliable broadband Internet connection. The standard definition movies are about 1.6GB and will probably take about 2 hours 20 minutes to download.
After the keynote, Dave and I headed down to the exhibit floor and walked around for about four hours. I made a few purchases, said hello to some familiar faces, saw a lot of cool stuff and enjoyed the technology, and the show floor.
