Saturday Worship

Had to visit London on Friday to go out and get drunk with some clients - what a hardship!

Whilst there I decided to visit the new Apple store on Regents Street and worship at the altar of quality computing.

I've been an enthusiastic Macintosh user since my first Mac back in 1984. It ran at 8Mhz, had 128k of memory and a 400k floppy drive. Constant nagging of my boss eventually got it upgraded to a massive 1mb of RAM and dual 800k floppy drive. If memory serves me correctly I think this upgrade was £1,000!

I used it to run the production load for a continuous stationery company. All done in a linked Excel spreadsheets - Excel existed on the Mac a couple of years before it arrived on Windows, so to did Word and many, many graphics packages.

Back to the Apple store - very impressive, lots of space, lots of staff, lots of polished wood and LOTS of glass including a fantastic glass staircase - which is a bit unnerving when you first step on.

I'm kind of in the market for a new laptop, and was quite tempted as a result of being able to touch and feel, but the rumour mill suggests revisions to the PowerBook are due with a faster chip (as always) and larger cache and maybe even dual cores. So I think I'll wait for a while...