David Kim and George Kouba attend as Macintosh technical support representatives of North Jersey Media Group.

Day 1 - Keynote

We tripped in on the ferry from Weehawken. USS Intrepid shown here.

Dave and I got to Jacob Javits at 7am. The keynote is at 9am. We are in the building. But there are addicts greater than us. Almost 500 strong in front of us. By 730am the line is out the door and by 8am is snaking around the outside building.

The Keynote address. We got in. But about 30 rows back.

On the left: Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus gives out temporary tatoos to be applied to the forehead of Mac addicts in search of Bob's new book for free. I just bought one. It was easier and contributed to Bob's cause at the same time. On the right: Dave hangs out on the ferry for the ride back to Weehawken. It's a hot day and Dave is way too cool.

DAY 2 - Conferences and stuff

On the left: David Kim - Technical Support NJMG Garret Mountian. On the right: George Kouba - Technical Support NJMG Hackensack

The new X-Server with a 2 terabyte array strung beneath it. Way cool.

We attended 3 conferences mostly dealing with Mac OS X. We were very impressed by the OS and hardware and what it has to offer for our company. It is the first OS on the Mac that is completely mulitasking, fast, and crash proof. After being on the market in it's buggy state for almost 2 years, it has evolved into a viable OS solution.

Its it time to consider a Macintosh server solution? Maybe. I some areas of server tasks, this OS meets and exceeds. In others it falls just a bit short. But time and inginuaty will tell.

Is in time to upgrade our Macintosh clients to OS X? Defininately. If we can run all our applications in OS X, the ROI would be immeasurable. Unfortunatly we have to wait for our vendors to release OS X native applications, the major one being Quark.

This is a great opportunity for Adobe to step up and develop a version of InDesign that will allow a user to open any Quark Xpress document and and work on it transparently , save it, and print in Mac OS X with InDesign. This might be a hot market for Adobe.

But there is still that problem of font management. You would think by now that Apple would address this. But we are still at the wim of third party software as buggy as it is.

My take is Mac over Windows overall. I work with both systems everyday. I know the crazy crap both OS's can present.

I still sway towards a Macintosh OS X solution.

David is still looking cool on a hot day.

Thanks for looking in.