MacWorld Recap

As you may have noted in my earlier article MacWorld 2008 was a great experience for me. I met a lot of great people and saw some great products.

Before I jump into the products it was really cool to have people come up to the booth and say how much they love Fotolia. I even had one women actually start to give a demo to a crowd of people highlighting how she uses the Fotolia features. Everyone I spoke to loved the images and the website.

So I did have a chance to view a few cool products that you should be aware of. The first one is what everyone was talking about at the show. It is the new laptop from Apple called the Macbook Air. And yes it really is thin. About ¾ of an inch thin at its highest point. It has a number of cool features like:

• 13.3 inch display
• Full keyboard – backlit
• 1.6 Intel Core 2 Dou
• 2 GB of Memory standard
• 80 GB hard drive
• Optional 64 GB solid state hard drive
• 802.11n wireless card
• Leopard OS

The Macbook Air is also environmental friendly using aluminum case, a mercury-free LCD, it uses less power of any Mac, and the packaging is completely made of recycled material. It starts at $1799.

Then I also saw Apples new Time Capsule. They simply combined a wireless router and external hard drive to back up every computer on the network running the Leopard OS. It comes in 500GB and 1TB of storage. Starting price is $299.

As I was walking the show floor I came upon this company called Axiotron. They make a product called Modbook that is similar to a tablet pc but much cooler since it is running the latest Leopard OS. The screen appears to be on the outside of a littl macbook and you have a very simple pen tool. The product is really geared to photographers, illustrators, and graphic designers who want that hands on feel with all their graphic work. Retails is about $2200

Last but not least I visited the Microsoft office booth. Yes I said Microsoft. They had a huge booth. They just recently launched Office 2008 for Mac. In some ways I think it is better than Office for Windows. They have so many templates and customization tools that allow you to enhance the project without destroying the original design I was blown away. So check that out as well.

I hope to return to MacWorld next year but only time will tell.

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Posted by chad on 03:00, January 23 2008

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