finding Monsuun | est. 2005

In light of Steve Job’s keynote speech at MacWorld this morning, I outline below my inevitable transition from a decrepit PC-dungeon-of-a-home-network to a new breath of super sweet hyper-oxygenated air in my new Mac-dom:

Mac Mini
Airport Extreme
AppleTV
iPhone (yes, we will be switching to Cingular)
Only a little time now until our lives in the Willey household will change.

I have been asked recently why I plan to leave my Microsoft (rest in peace sweet Microsoft) roots when I don’t even own one piece of Apple hardware or software. In fact, I have only one friend that actually uses his Mac email address. Thus, my current connection to Apple, Mac, iPod, et cetera is close to nill.

This will all change soon, however, when Apple releases its iTV in the spring, Leopard OS in January, and Andrea and I buy a Mac mini (shhh, I haven’t told her yet) in preparation for the media distribution giant that we will become upon the advent of a child.  And if Mr. Cringely is right this time (and he usually is), by using Apple’s iTV, coupled with an iSight, I can sit on my couch, open iChat on my TV, start a video chat with my Grandparents in Wisconsin, and immediately share those home videos of my baby farting in the bath water. And after that Andrea and I can put the baby to bed, sit back, relax, and watch the Lucky Number Slevin I just downloaded from iTunes. At least until the crying starts…

That dang Steve Jobs and his constant innovation may just win me over to Apple after all. Unless Vista (if it ever comes out) lives up to its hype (which I doubt), our next computer will probably be a Mac. And if iTunes begins offering movie downloads as is reportedly the topic of their press event on September 12, titled It’s Showtime, in conjuction with a yet-unannounced unveiling of a new multifunctional device (published by the US Patent Office), I may actually purchase this new device and brush the dust off that old iTunes account that I signed up for years ago.

Update:

Robert Cringely over at PBS has a good, well-informed prediction of what is to come from Apple’s Tuesday release. As usual, his column (which will soon become a blog) is always an entertaining and insightful read.