Some thougts after Steve Jobs Apple MacWorld Keynote speech.

  • The new 17" PowerBook is just a desktop killer whereas the 12" looks more like a good-looking expensive toy. The new USB printer aware, 802.11g Airport Extreme is also a pretty cool product.
  • The Safari web browser is fast indeed but why the hell KHTML instead of Gecko? As long as Safari lacks tabbed browsing and more customizable features, I'll stick to Chimera.
  • Keynote looks to me like the killer app for corporate switchers. Just bring your Mac in a meeting and blow the crap out of every other tasteless PowerPoint slideshow with advanced compositing and font rendering of Quartz Extreme. The software looks also way easier to handle than PowerPoint (oh boy these smart rulers!). That's a really good surprise!
  • It looks like that Steve was either too busy demo'ing cheesy family-oriented iApps or he was still afraid of the UNIX heads switching to OS X since he completely "forgot" to announce X11!