Overall Reaction to MacWorld

[Brewster]

What was everyone's overall reaction to the expo? Happy? Sad? Don't Care?

[sjb2016]

I appears I may have jumped the gun this morning as far as getting my panties in a bunch over no more .mac e-mail. Seems there may be a compromise in the works where I keep my address without paying. If that is the case, than this Expo was not bad at all. A lot of really neat technology got demoed. The rondezvous stuff looks amazing and the iApps should satisfy many (although my rather boring life has no need for much hot and heavy calendar action). Finally, Jaguar looks like the dogs, so the fact that it is coming out in August is awesome. I can't afford new hardware, so no let down there. An Expo to be filed away under average I guess.

[dixonbm]

Until this email issue is resolved I'm still pissed. Although I am impressed with the new iTunes, iSync is awesome too.

[mr_mac_x]

I think that Apple's making a big mistake with the .Mac thing, but we'll see how it turns out.

What I'm kind of not incredibly pleased (for lack of a better phrase) about is that nothing that they showed will really apply to me. I don't have a network printer (they didn't say if Rendezvous will work with normal USB printers) and there's only one notebook with AirPort that ever enters my house (and its mine) so I won't be using that part of Rendezvous either. I don't have (or want) an iPod, Palm or Bluetooth cell phone to use iSync with, I don't connect to Windows networks (except for maybe once a month), and I don't use Sherlock. The faster Finder will be nice, but I think the current one is fast enough and I don't use spring-loaded folders either. And, I'm not looking for a new iMac. Oh, yeah, and I don't listen to much music, so iTunes hardly matters to me.

To pretty much sum it up, I was hoping for something that would effect me (positively, unlike .Mac )

[Edit to fix typo]

[boi]

i'm happy! i got what i wanted (17" widescreen lcd imac with geforce 4) AND 20 gig ipods with all that crazy extra stuff! and the calendar feature for the ipod looks sccchwwwweeeeet! i can't wait! this was more exciting for me because i was actually in the market for a new computer ^_^. i don't care about losing @mac.com, i've got my own web host =P.

[xaqintosh]

other than .mac, it was great.

[mrfluffy]

the lower 5gig iPod price is good (wonder what the education will be, cos it was £275, but now it's £259 to everyone) but the .mac thing ruined it, unless we get just e-mail free.

[Kazrog]

Happy with Apple overall. My guess is that they are finished with Motorola, who has basically been spanking it for the last year and a half. If Apple is going to introduce new PowerMacs, I'd rather see them kick ass and destroy the Pentiums than be some marginal speed increase the to G4. Time for the G5 or something completely different.

Jaguar is by far the best thing they are doing. They are developing the best operating system of all time. It's all about speed, efficiency, and stability. OS X is such a phenomenal product, that I wonder how I ever used a computer before it.