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It's Showtime (Almost) (6/11/98)
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It's almost MacWorld Expo time again... who else is getting excited? Well, judging by the rumors of a smaller show and poor preregistration, we'd have to guess, "not many." We consider that a darn shame; this is the expo's first year in New York, and despite our ambivalence about the move from Boston (now it's actually a trip, which is kind of a pain, but at least we don't have to deal with the Big Dig and buses between two convention halls), we'd like to see it succeed. We're encouraged by MacCentral's preview of the event, though.
MacCentral's Stan Flack spoke to the show's director to shed some light on the attendance issues. Yes, the show will be smaller this year, though there will be roughly the same number of exhibitors as there were at last year's Boston show; with the demise of cloning, though, we won't see the same "Battle of the Big Booths" that we did last year. Apple's booth, however, will be huge, to accommodate all of the gawkers wanting to check out the PowerBook G3 Series and the new iMac, as well as to get the skinny on Mac OS X. And the really compelling thing for us is the renewed focus on Macs in the consumer space, with both a "Content@Home" show section, and an entire section dedicated to games. There's even a two-day gaming competition (though Yours Truly will have to sit this one out, due to the busted paw). All in all, it sounds like this Expo will be both educational and a lot of fun.
By the way, we'd like to publicly thank MacCentral, and especially Stan, for thinking of us when he was asked about finding speakers for one of the conference panels. This will be our fifth MacWorld Expo. but it'll be our first time sitting on one of the panels, and we expect it to be a blast. For those of you who are attending, the conference in question is "101 Things To Do With A Dead Mac." Details are forthcoming, so keep tuning in...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/11/98 episode: June 11, 1998: A hapless UCLA undergrad illustrates how PC buyers are forced to shell out dough to Bill Gates, even if they don't plan on running any Microsoft software. Meanwhile, Macfolk everywhere gear up for next month's MacWorld Expo, and IBM and Motorola get a quickie divorce...
Other scenes from that episode: 765: Like It or Lump It (6/11/98) You know, with all the hoopla surrounding the ongoing antitrust case against Microsoft, it's easy to lose sight of exactly why the government is taking action against them. One of the fundamental issues at hand is that Microsoft may be using its near-monopoly in the desktop operating system market (Windows hovers at somewhere around 90% market share, by most accounts) to establish a new monopoly in the internet browser market... 767: Trial Separation (6/11/98) Sounds like the PowerPC chipmaking marriage may be over... IBM and Motorola are splitting up, and Motorola gets the house. IBM is vacating the Somerset PowerPC design center in Texas, leaving the whole place to Motorola...
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