Now only 7 years later I have a 2 pound laptop that I haven’t yet been able to give it a task that it couldn’t perform without issue. We are in a time where we can have huge amounts of computing power in small machines. Relinquishing the need for most people to have a bulky desktop.

What is really interesting though is it would seem that it is beginning to become a trend to trade power for portability, thus netbooks are born. Netbooks seem to be all the rage with many companies already having a netbook in their product line up. Companies, like Apple, who don’t have a netbook in their line up are being begged to add netbooks.

I really started thinking about where things are going in regards to computing when I read this article in Daring Fireball. In the article John Gruber stated “But today, for many common tasks, the type of CPU you get when you build a $400 lightweight laptop is fast enough.” For along time now computing has been all about speed, now it would seem that its more about how portable you can be.

I am waiting for something that is a cross between a Mac Book Air and an iPhone. I realize that now is not the best time for Apple to release a product like this but I am tired of waiting for someone to come out with a device that breaks the mold of devices that we have today. I feel like we are still in the early 90′s as far as our devices go. All we are doing is making things smaller.

Hopefully something will come out of Apple’s next event. They are, in my opinion, the best hope we have to have new technology that breaks the mold. They did it with the iPod, the iPhone, and with their stores I think they will be suprising us more and more.

In the end we got new iPod Nano, new iPod Touch, and iTunes 8 with Genius. A lot of work on Apples part to deliver these things but I’m still waiting for something to excite me again like the iPhone did at its announcement.

I also love being able to rent movies right from my couch. I know that that makes me sound like a bum but I always hated going to the rental store and ending up either getting something else because they were out of what I wanted or having to go rent 10 movies because I might not like any of them. With the Apple TV I can see the trailer right before I decide to rent and if the movie doesn’t turn out to be what I thought it was I can stop watching and just rent another.

I do think that the Apple TV has a lot more potential than what Apple has currently given it but so far I am a very happy customer and all those who say that the Apple TV is a dead product should really try to own one.