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What a crazy day for Apple Inc., Macworld attendees, and me. Still trying to get the feeling back in my thumbs after live-blogging, via Blackberry, during the keynote. I really hope you found that useful.
The highlight of my day had to be the ten or so minutes I spent with Steve Jobs in an exclusive interview on CNBC just after his speech. He had his cup of tea, seemed to be a little under the weather, but even a cold couldn't dampen his enthusiasm for today's announcements. He was engaging, direct, honest, easy-going. For me, it was a great interview.
He walked me through the finer points of the new MacBook "Air." It's a gorgeous device and I could see why Jobs and his team would "lust after" something like this. His words, not mine. Don't underestimate the redesign of Intel's Core 2 Duo microprocessor, now 60 percent smaller just for this particular device. Very cool. Still, at $1,799, it ain't cheap.
Also, don't underestimate the power of the new iTunes movie rental service either. I asked Jobs whether this meant the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD was over, with Apple the big winner. Clearly, he said, Blu-ray won, but in the new world order of instant online movie rentals, in HD, no one will care about what format is where. Funny how fast tech can move.
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