01.16.08
Touched
So, as you might have surmised by my lack of enthusiasm, yesterday’s MacWorld was actually pretty tame. The biggest announcement was indeed the somewhat unsurprising MacBook Air, which by all accounts is impossibly small. Of course, having handled an iPod Touch for about, oh, all of last night, I don’t think I need to say “impossibly”. The minuscule size is quite possible– and actually very nearly probable.
I’ve tried not to think of the Touch as an iPod, actually; with the SDK coming up in a month and a half, it’s really more a Trojan Horse into the palmtop computer/organizer venue. Even as it stands now, with just a handful of the sync-capable apps and the extremely tightly-coupled Google integration, the device is more organizer than I’ve ever used. And believe me when I say I’m going to make use of it; the Basroil’s a wonderful computer and still my primary, but sometimes there’s just not enough room or time to sit down, pull it out of the bag, open it up, and so on and so forth just to check mail. Pittsburgh’s a good spot for Wi-Fi, too, so I should have no trouble staying connected. Naturally, I probably won’t be able to make use of some of the really obscure features, like location via hotspot proximity, but we shall see. If anything, I’m definitely going to go ahead with the .Mac subscription so I can keep everything more or less synced up (the Touch syncs to KOS-MOS, and I keep most of my calendar appointments on the Basroil).
Oh, incidentally? The YouTube integration? Pure bliss. I look forward to being able to show off “The Weapon Of CX” on-demand.
It’s been kind of a crappy week for gaming, both in new releases and in stuff I’ve played. I couldn’t get much further in Eternal Sonata the past couple of nights, but tonight I hope to plow through to the next chapter at least turn it on unless something else comes up. Something usually does. Ah well; one way or another I’ll have something on the other side tomorrow. See you there, then.