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January 20, 2008

So much to blog about...

So little time! Macworld was a great launch for the Office for Mac team. We had a full house at our A Day at the Office event, we got a nice nod in the keynote (a brief thanks from Steve and then woven into the MacBook Air introduction), we had a way cool party at the Warfield with Devo, the blogger lounge seemed to be appreciated and was well used the entire show, and our booth kicked ass (of course, I'm biased ).

If I had to pick a highlight for the week, though (and it's tough), it was Macworld Live! with David Pogue. It is a funny highlight for me to pick given how much I stress before public speaking events, but once the time was there and I was actually talking to David, it was great - I really enjoyed our conversation.

Lots of cool stuff at the keynote - I'm excited to check out the new AppleTV interface and I'm really jazzed about the new iPhone update that lets me clean up my home screen. The new MacBook Air is a way cool achievement and a thing of beauty, although to be honest, I'm likely to trade my MacBook in for tricked out MacBook Pro - my poor MacBook already screams in consternation every time I run Civ 4 on it, never mind more demanding games. Keeping score, I got 4 out of 10 things in my keynote wishlist, which ain't bad. Still holding out for a 3G iPhone!

On an unrelated note, on Friday when I got back from Macworld I swung by the AT&T store and upgraded my Samsung Blackjack to a Blackjack II and it kicks some serious ass - but more on that for another post.

Posted by Craig at 7:04 PM | | | Leave a comment

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I'm loving Office 2008!!!
I totally agree about the MBA. I'm much more inclined to move from my MacBook to the MBP. Although... I can't tell you that I haven't considered picking up on of the new iMacs and using the MacBook Air as a secondary machine.

Posted by: Stefan | January 20, 2008 8:09 PM

January 5, 2008

Top 10 things on my wishlist for the Stevenote

We are nine days from the Stevenote at Macworld .... here's the top 10 things I would love to hear (in no particular order, really)

  1. Less than 3 pound notebook. I love my Macbook but it is 5 pounds!
  2. Hi-def video content on iTunes
  3. NBC shows back on iTunes
  4. Hi-def DVD drives in the whole Mac line
  5. Apple TV hardware refresh: 1080p out and a hi-def DVD drive. Oh, and an option to get the 300gb 2.5" drive, too. I dislike manually upgrading
  6. Ability to access the iTunes store from my Apple TVs
  7. iPod Touch with a hard drive - I want to be able to carry all my movies again!
  8. 3G iPhone - please, please, please have mercy and get me off edge!
  9. iPhone with 16GB or even better 32GB
  10. Quad SLI ATI Radeon HD 3800 or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra gaming cards in the Mac Pro (heck, throw terabyte drives in as an option too)

Can't wait to hear what's new!

Posted by Craig at 10:53 AM | | | Leave a comment

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How about a Rogers iPhone for your friends in Canada!?!!?!

Posted by: Gray | January 7, 2008 11:11 AM

Uh, so you can cross #10 off already, huh?

Posted by: Erik J. Barzeski | January 8, 2008 5:25 PM

Gray - as a fellow Canadian, I feel your pain. I hope you get your iPhone!

Erik - I know, they were damned close! It isn't quite the high end cards, but close enough to cross it off my list. The new Mac Pro should make a kick-butt gaming machine.

Posted by: Craig | January 8, 2008 10:08 PM

Actually, my top wish from your excellent team would be MS Money for Mac. Please... with multicurrency support as it is currently on PC.

Posted by: Marc Denjean | January 14, 2008 3:52 AM

January 3, 2008

T-12 days

I've been running Office on my new iMac at home for a while and it has been great – I love the performance and the new interface. Last night I decided to give some of my older machines a shot – I have a 1.43GHz PowerPC based Mac Mini and my very first Mac, my Power Mac G4, with dual 500MHz PowerPC processors. I paved my Mac Mini and installed Leopard, and left the Power Mac running Tiger. I installed Office 2008 on both and I was very pleased with the performance – especially on my Power Mac, which at 500MHz is the minimum processor required for Office. Works great on the newer Intel Macs, works great on older PowerPC based Macs!

The reviews of Office: mac 2008 have started to appear the past couple of days, and I think it is fair to say that folks generally like what they see. The below isn't a complete list, but it is a decent sample. January 15th here we come!

January 3rd:

January 2nd:

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Craig, will you be on stage during the Stevenote to demo Office 2008?

Posted by: Michael Dragone | January 3, 2008 7:15 PM

Every detail of the Stevenote is kept very secret, so I can't talk about the Stevenote (and your guess is as good as mine as to what Steve will talk about - I'm rooting for a sub-notebook myself).

MacBU will have an huge presence at Macworld, and there will be plenty of opportunities to check out Office 2008 first hand.

Posted by: Craig | January 5, 2008 10:35 AM