- Mini iPod: way too expensive.
- G5 cluster: cool!
- Garage Band: neat. John Mayer rocks too.
- The rest of iLife is cool and all. $49 for the bundle is a good deal.
- Drink more Pepsi. One in three gets an iTune.
- Office:Mac has some new features that are in Office 2003 for Windows, plus some other neat Mac-only stuff.
- Transitions are ugly no matter how you slice it.
Overall I was underwhelmed. The stuff is cool and all, we just got our hearts set on a mini-iPod at the $99 price point. We didn’t get it. $249 is way too high. You can get 15 gigs for $299 or 4 gigs for $249. Do the math.
I was also a bit dissapointed by Akamai, which handled the stream. I got a ‘not enough bandwidth’ error several times throughout the keynote, and I’m not alone. It looked fine for most people. Rael even watched the whole thing over GPRS.