Im reporting from Macworld in San Francisco. The keynote was ok, the new powerbooks, now called Macbooks are cool, but they have clumsy names in my opinion. They have an intel chip and should run much faster, but the thing is only apple's software and quark I think don't have to run in emulation, so they aren't that fast yet, by the summer I think we will start to see more of the major companies porting stuff over to x86 chips. The iMac also has an intel chip now. Also apple created software called iWeb which lets users 'simply' create webpages, from templates. people can manage blogs, podcasts, and there own webpages on .mac in this way. From what I saw you can't upload to an FTP client, if you can do this easily I think so many students, especially where i go to school, will do this instead of learning what is going on with a webpage and this could hurt many people in the long run. It is quite a nifty program, though, in a template sort of way. The CEO of intel showed up at the keynote as well, which was cool because he appeared in a cloud of smoke dressed in a white jumpsuite like in their old commercials.

btw my first computer was mac SE i believe, we got it in 1986, i was 2 years old at the time.

I'll post some pictures tonight.