Moving Walkway

I wanted to see four things out of MacWorld this month.  Here is what I got:

• iPhone apps on iPod Touch.  I got this one, but need to pay $20.  Would rather have had it as a free upgrade, but fine, I’ll pay the $20.  I will, however, wait until the 3rd party apps are available.  I already have the apps on my touch (thanks to the great community out there) and would get it “officially” except I don’t want to give up the NetFlix 3rd party app.  It is the way I manage my queue these days.
• Video Playlist.  Still waiting for the Apple TV “take two” update to see if this made it.  And as I just said, I’m not upgrading to the latest touch firmware for a little longer.  I’m still hopeful.
• Microphone for iPod Touch.  There is a “do it yourself” hack out there.  Perhaps this will come as an accessory once 3rd party apps arrive later this year.
• Small laptop.  The Macbook Air arrived.  Reviews are great if you like the tradeoffs made, and terrible if you don’t.  I would get one, but have hesitation around the HD.  I want the SSD, but the premium for that is too much.  Maybe I wait 8 months and the price drops by $500 (which I expect it will for the SSD equiped one).  The performance will be fine for me.  It is basically the same machine I use everyday (my Mac Mini has 2GB of RAM and a 1.6GHz Duo).

All in all, I got enough to be happy.  Now I just need to find a few more coins to splurge on the Air.

This is the list of things I’d like to hear announced at MacWorld, some big, some small:

• Video playlists on the iPod touch and Apple TV. I’ve wanted this for a long time. Last week I discovered that my wife’s nano already has this. So it should be on all “devices/platforms”
• iPhone apps on the iPod Touch. There is no reason the touch should not have mail, weather, stocks, and Google Maps. Having used them on my hacked touch for a month now, they work just how I’d like and the touch is SO much more valuable to me now.
• Microphone add-on for the touch, maybe with a speaker also. Do for the touch what the iTalk did for the earlier iPods. But it needs to be full duplex so it will work with Skype when 3rd party apps are officially supported.
• Ultra small laptop. A small professional laptop would be great. An 11 or 12 inch screen, but super hi-rez (DPI of the iPhone). Touch screen would be nice. My wife’s MacBook would be ok for me to use at work, but I really want a little more and the MacBook Pro’s are a little big for my “on the road” use in the new job.