I've been waiting for the MacWorld Expo to happen to see what Apple would offer an upgrade to. The keynote speech is apparently where all the important news is given out at these shindigs. Most of the Mac pundits wrote that nothing much was expected this year. The biggest deal about the whole thing was that Steve Jobs wasn't there, and it's the last year Apple will display at it's oldest trade show. It seems like Apple has outgrown the need for this magazine's trade show support. Tech companies in general seem to be pulling away from this type of venue.
I was hoping Apple would update the Mac Mini. I didn't think I would buy a new one, but I wanted to see if I'd be tempted. I am in the mood for a new computer, but I have some features that are not yet in the consumer market to be in a new machine by default. Namely, a Solid State Drive and USB3. The hype was flowing for thinking Apple would come out with a new Mac Mini, but they didn't do it. They only upgraded their top of the line notebook they call the MacBook Pro.
One interesting note was that they did offer an SSD as an option with a larger storage capacity. the USB3 upgrade is too new. I didn't expect it to come out on anything Mac. As a matter of fact, another big trade show going on now, the CES, will have the first official demonstration of USB3 this week sometime.
USB3 is ten times as fast as USB2. It will have to be to accommodate the speed of the up and coming SSDs, but it will allow comparatively unlimited uploads and downloads from external peripheral gadgets like high speed cameras. I'm not thinking straight about this now, but several of the elements of computing can be taken out of the case that contributes to the heating and the need for a lot of noisy fans. Setting them up outside the main CPU case where they won't need fans to cool them will make computing a much quieter affair. Quieter still because the SSDs that will replace the traditional hard drives have no moving parts and are for all practical purposes silent. The pundits claim this is revolutionary technology as opposed to evolutionary technology. It's not just the next logical step, but sorta like a jump to warp speed.
I set up a new blog at:
http://wordsaladexpress.wordpress.com/
I'll probably be using both sites for a while to see if I like the new one. Presently, I only wrote a short note there to get things going.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
