CreativeFlux

Macworld 08

January 15th, 2008

I wasn’t going to write anything but, it’s Macworld and I didn’t join in with the predictions so I may as well post a reaction!

Time Capsule

This is pretty much exactly what I wanted! I have an iMac and an old iBook G4 and it’s a pain having to switch the drive between systems. Having this all in one device is superb and it takes up less space than having a drive plugged into a router, since it’s all in one. So… thumbs up for that.

Apple TV + iTunes Move Rentals

This wasn’t a surprise thanks to all the articles that have been flying around the last week or so, but nonetheless it’s very welcome. I hate going to the cinema and I love consuming my media in digital format (I hate disks, hence why quite a few of my DVD’s are ripped to h264 and stored on a big drive!)

The AppleTV is suddenly worth the money(!) I was semi-tempted when it first came out but it didn’t quite offer enough so I lost interest in it. Now that I can buy music, video and movie rentals right on my TV it looks to be a perfect way to tie all of my media together in the living room. So needless to say I’ll be grabbing one of those later in the year!

Those were really the only two announcements that caught my eye. The MacBook air is nice, especially if you’re someone who travels a lot and no doubt it’s an impressive engineering feat. But it’s just not something I’m interested in currently. And I don’t have an iPhone/iPod Touch so I didn’t really pay any attention to that either.

All in all a great keynote, though I was hoping to get my hands on a 10.5.2 update (maybe it’ll come a bit later!)