Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2006

The BBC has a video of Jobs introducing Intel:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/default.stm

I attended MWX in SF for a couple of days. Frankly, it was not worth the
effort, esp. since I live on the east coast. Compared to previous years,
this expo's exhibition area was at least half the area. There were very
few interesting exhibits this year and only a handful of areas on the
exhibits floor where one could sit down to see product demos. This year,
there wasn't even a developers' section.

I sat down in one of the few product demo areas in the exhibits area,
mainly just to take a quick breather, and I ended up being the only
person in the audience to watch a demo of a CAD application (which
turned out to be very interesting), but I was the only person in the
audience!

Most of the exhibitors were showing off products for the iPod. I think
this years Macworld Expo SF could have been more appropriately named
iPodworld Expo instead. As usual, admission to Steve Jobs' keynote was
also totally disorganized. A friend and I got in line 1 hour before it
started and we ended up watching it on a big screen TV in an overflow
area. IDG should sell reserved tickets. I don't know why they do not do
that, but it will be the last time I pay a dime to see Steve Jobs speak
at a Macworld Epxo, as I could have seen the same thing via streaming
video for free.

The only part of the sow I really enjoyed was the Adobe Breakfast. The
food was mediocre, but I learned a lot, which is why I attend these
events in the first place.

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the week before Macworld Expo
was far more interesting. I managed to snag some free tickets to CES for
some friends and me. This was our first CES show and it won't be our
last, but I doubt I will be at Macworld Expo again.

I am speaking as someone who has attended almost every north American
Macworld Expo for the past decade, so I have a good basis to compare
them.