I'm planing a trip to California in August with my wife and my two kids (boy and a girl, seven year old twins). My basic plan is to go to San Francisco, drive to Napa, Berkeley, Silicon Valley (Cupertino, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, San Jose), then down Highway one to Santa Cruz, then Carmel, Monterrey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, ending up in Anaheim for a week of Disneyland.
If someone reading this is from the area I would appreciate comments and suggestions. Remember the kids, the trip is for them.

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Moviemaking on iMac shows PCs need to catch up by Bob LeVitus

As I scribbled furiously, Dave's long-suffering wife added, "He swore less at the Mac than he does at his Dell."

Dave then said he had created more multimedia in three days with the iMac than he had in 18 months with his Dell. He only opened the Help file a couple of times. He concluded, "The hardest part was getting the iMac back in the box."

Before departing I asked if he'd consider a Mac next time. He replied: "Absolutely. In fact, if we hadn't wasted so much money trying to transform that Dell into a multimedia computer, I'd get one today."

I bet this is happening all over the place. Another day, another convert.

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• File name extensions: Apple wants this to become the main way in which the type of the file is recognized and the way in which the preferred application for the type is chosen. This creates a difficult and confusing system. I doubt Apple will change this.
• Installer mess: The installer stops working if you mak any change in the placing of applications. This is silly and has got to stop. Apple must know this and will change it.
• Kernel Funnel: I do not know exactly what the problem is here, but it seems that lookupd does several functions (for NetInfo?) and is either not multithreading or has re-entry problems. The end result is that network searches are done one at a time, which is slow. A lesser problem is that if lookupd hangs (for example, if you have an Airport connection and you are at a "boundary point", where the connection comes and goes with the smallest movements) the machine will effectively hang (you can't open applications or issue a ps -x command on the terminal). This is probably related to the slowness perceived in OS X. I hope Apple fixes this soon.
• File System: The file system is slow and somewhat brain damaged. I think I should be able to move stuff around my hard disk (or at least, my home folder) without creating any problem at all. I don't know if Apple wants to fix this.
• Spring loaded folders: I want them, Apple will provide them... Yes, I am that important...

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