MacExpo 2003
I’d been looking forward to going to the MacExpo for weeks; piles of great Apple products and hundreds of other Mac-fans—what could be better? My impression was that there weren’t quite as many exhibitors as last year, but there was still a lot to see. Apple was there with the whole range of hardware on display, and was running seminars on the new features in Panther, the G5 and so on. Adobe was there too, showing off their new Creative Suite. There were some very good seminars—particularly the ones run by Adobe on tips and tricks with Photoshop. Of course, this meant that I immediately wanted two things: a copy of Photoshop CS and a new digital camera that will write RAW files. RAW files are the cat’s pyjamas! I wouldn’t have to worry about exposure settings at all thenâjust shoot in RAW, then fiddle with the sliders until it looked good.
Apple always displays their hardware so well (on uplit perspex benches) that even the eMacs looked good. The new iMacs with the 20” screens were very pretty, and the G5s were superb. The word ‘fast’ isn’t really adequate to describe the G5. Applications open before you even think about what you want to do. So I’ll console myself with the thought that I value my ‘staring into space’ time while waiting for applications to load too much to get a G5. Well, I don’t think I even convinced myself with that…
