Macworld Expo: Exciting Times
The media have been saturated with information on new hardware and software from Apple just announced in Macworld Expo.
Apple's new presentation software Keynote is very interesting. I look forward to playing with it and using it.
I like the form factor of the 12" Powerbook G4, althou I am not comfortable that it lacks a PCMCIA card slot. I admit that the PCMCIA card slot on my 15" TiBook is unoccupied most of the time, so it is quite possible that Apple's decision not to put the slot in the new machine is sound.
The Airport Extreme is also very interesting. This piece of equipment could serve as an access point and a bridge at the same time, meaning that one can form a mesh WiFi network easily. There are access points, and there are bridge, but I believe this is the first one which does both. Pity to use the Airport Extreme card (for the high speed) I would have to upgrade to a new machine, which I won't be able to do until next year.
The new Safari browser will replace Microsoft Internet Explorer as the default browser on new machines. It is based on the KHTML core, and is lightning fast. It beats Chimera on speed by a comfortable margin. However, it has problems handling tons of CSS stuff. Web developers will have to support an additional browser from now on, which is of course bad news.
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