Yesterday, I went to Macworld in San Francisco. Being in the bay area anyway, I wanted to take the chance to see a keynote of Steve Jobs live. I arrived at the Moscone Center at about 7:30am. At that time, the waiting line for the keynote was already going around half of the block. (approx. 500 meters) Quickly talks with other people in line started about what will come and how it will be, but the line was not moving at all for the first 30 minutes and afterwards only very slowly. The keynote should start at 9am. At this time I was still at least 200 meters away from the entrance of the building. At 9:25am, the keynote was already running for 15 minutes, I finally reached the entrance. At that point, we were told, that the auditorum and the overflow rooms were already fully packed and they would not let anyone in anymore. I was really pissed. 
Together with Tony, a guy I got to know in the waiting line, I went to a nearby Starbucks to “watch” the keynote “live” at macrumors.com’s live ticker. :-S
Anyway, I am really impressed by the Macbook Air. Later on that day, I tried it out for a couple of minutes in the Exihibition hall. It is really thin, small and the weight is very low. The multi-touch trackpad works like a charm. (Tried it in iPhoto, Safari, Preview, Finder)
Interesting is the price. In Germany it costs 1699€, in the US 1799$ + tax (~1951$) which results in a final price of 1331€. That is even cheaper than the black Macbook in Germany. Very strange…. Well, the US price finally convinced me, so that I ordered one a couple of minutes ago. 
Another new product, which I might buy in the future is Time Capsule. It is a combined wifi router (802.11n) and harddisk, with which it is possible to do automatic, continuous backups of all Macs in your home. As Judith is thinking about buying a Macbook Air as well, Time Capsule could do a good job backup data centrally from all three Macs (the Mac Mini is currently connected to the TV).
BTW…something what surprised me a lot at Macworld was, that there were many different types of attendees. From very young (children) to very old (>70yrs), from looking rather “normal” to looking rather “rich”, from casual mac users to professionals, from users to developers. So it was definitely not only those kinds of geeks I would have expected, but a lot of just “normal” people. For me as a German it was a little bit strange, as in Germany people would not expect to see e.g. many older people using Macbooks or iPods.
Well, now I am waiting for the Macbook Air to arrive (in 2-3 weeks according to Apple.com)…
