So yesterday I went to the expo for another day. As of my first expo floor day I had only covered the north hall, and a brief run thru the west hall. Day 2 I went with Pablo to the expo. This was the first year I went more than one day. Given that this year's expo was rather large the multi-day approach was well worth it. Got a nice look of the west hall and another full run thru the south hall. Recap of more devices and some other stuff.

First off make sure to check the photodump. I'll probably put some inline later.

So finally got to touch a MacBook Air. VERY impressive bit of technology. If you really want/need the thing thing go for it, nothing could be better than that. However you are goign to take a performance hit.

Re-touching on the LaCie portable hard drives, very nice stuff. However the OWC portable is still proving touch competition espically as a DIY setup on the price point and size. I'm goign to have to do (as usual) a good deal of looking up drives and research before I purchase.

One of the awesome toys I got to play with (that I really want, but can't afford) was the Canon DSLR's. Tinkered with the 40D, a-fucking-mazing. Having used a few Nikon's a bit the Canon was miles above in it's interface and ease of use. Now in all fairness this is comparing a Nikon D40 to a Canon 40D. Same numbers and letter, but the body+lens kit is priced at $549 and ~$1349-1549 respectively. So I'd hope for a better interface. Either way, I want it but as you can see the price point is a bit prohibitive. Not including the fact that a zoom telephoto lens or any extra lenses for that matter are expensive as fuck too. E.g. The tele zoom lens, 70-200mm f/2.8 (image stablzer and AF servo) runs around about $1000. Ouch.

Ok other things, VMWare Fusion. Holly shit my next MacPro WILL have that on it. Leme put it this way, on their demo system they had: OS X with XP apps running in nativised windows, Vista full screen, and Ubuntu. The beauty of Fusion is you can tie a system enviroment to a space (you know Lepoard spaces, aka multiple desktops.) So in our tinkering with it, no joke, you could change thru which system you were working in as fast as spaces flys around and changes. Totally sold. Now I want a new MacPro, dammit.

Ok, my brain is forgetting much right now, I'll update this later/do a part 2 so check back. Last item or two– Saw the Mac Break Weekly podcast recording. Fun stuff. I think i'm goign to need to indulge my geek self more because they are damn entertaining. Andy Ihnatko's watching an opera on his iPhone mid-podcast recording because he was bored was classic!
Alright, I'm off. More thoughts/highlights/pics to make things look cooler coming later.