I’m in DC today, waiting a couple of hours for my meetings to start. Once they get going, it looks like they won’t slow down until late in the evening! I’ve run through my slides and my demo a number of times now, and I’ve got them down pretty well. I’m not very sure how much actual presenting I’ll be doing — it looks a lot like I’m here for discussions as well as demonstrations.
Earlier, I stopped in the Apple Store at Pentagon City Mall and took a look at a 20″ Dual Core Intel iMac. It’s a very nice machine! This one doesn’t even have a cracked screen. Scott ordered one the day they were announced, and now unfortunately he has to wait until he gets a good one, because the screen was cracked in transit. Interesting visual effect, but it would probably get old.
I took a couple of snapshots with the Photo Booth software and built-in iSight. Both performed well. The picture seems at first glance to be a lot better than what we get from our old non-integrated iSight. I’ll definitely be asking Santa for one of these or something equivalent; it’s a step in the right direction for Apple! I can’t wait
to see how the laptops perform, and hope the speediness filters back down the line to the iBook, or its Intel Mac equivalent. I don’t think they could call it the iMacBook, could they?
I’m supposed to have a working lunch with some folks at 2 or so, but I was already hungry after getting up at 3:40 AM to catch my 6:30 AM flight out of Columbia. I didn’t want to spoil my late lunch, so I had some really good tabbouleh and a falafel.