Keynote thoughts

Well, it’s nice to know that my national tech debt will not be increasing.  Not that there wasn’t some great stuff rolled out at Macworld, but there was nothing that came forward as a must-have item for me.

The MacBook Air is a beautiful machine, no doubt.  Weighing in at three pounds, the specs put the Eee PC that I’m using for this post to shame.  An 80 GB hard drive, 2 GB memory, super-thin with a full-sized screen.  But with my casual usage needs, I couldn’t justify spending even the base price of 1800 bucks.  My Eee was 400, and except for not working on Seesmic, it really does everything I need a mobile device to do.  I’m not a professional (I wish!) and I really don’t ask a lot of my machine, though.  That said, the Air is going to sell like crazy.

The upgrade to Apple TV would be tempting, especially with the hardware price drop.  But I also know that TiVo has an upgrade coming that will allow for streaming web video.  Since I already have my TiVo box, there’s not much compelling for me - at least not right now.

My favorite announcement was free.  The iPhone update rocks.  Being able to add web icons to the home screen makes all of those web apps a lot more appealing.  One click access makes all the difference in the world.  Pittsburgh must not be the thriving metropolis I thought it was, since Google was off by a good twenty miles when I tried to find my position.  We’ll see how much better it is from downtown.  I know the changes they’ve made so far really whets my appetite for whatever comes out of the SDK when it’s released next month.

I’m truly amazed that I have no desire to buy anything after CES and now Macworld.  It’s a really weird feeling.