I'm at MacWorld 2008

...and man, the new Macbook Air is ridiculously thin and light. I'd be afraid of breaking the thing.

The last time I was at the Moscone Center, I was attending IHRSA, the premier international tradeshow for the healthclub industry. Quite a different crowd, let me tell you. ;)

Neat experience so far -- only had an exhibitor pass, so I couldn't see the keynote, but the Apple booth (obscured by a thick black canvas) broadcast the whole thing live (sound; no picture). Other people who didn't shell out the hundreds of dollars to get a pass into the keynote were sitting on the exhibition hall floor around the booth, listening in. I fortunately sat next to some guys with a WiFi-ed laptop, and they were able to get images from MacRumors. Felt strangely similar to camping out for a midnight showing of Star Wars.

Nice thing about being there, though, was that once the canvas went down, I got to be one of the first people to play with it. Very impressive little machine. I was surprised that it contained a hard drive (the Apple employee demo'ing the machine mentioned that it used the same drive as an iPod). Not a bad machine for $1799, though if I really wanted a second laptop (not likely), I'd probably go for an Asus Eee PC, based on bang for buck. The solid state drive version runs around $3000 -- yowsers!