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After looking through many reviews, I decided on the old Macbook Pro instead of the new Macbook Pro and got a great deal at amazon for $1599 after the rebate and 4GB Ram for about $60. It was pretty simple to install the ram, the hard part was finding a screw driver small enough to take out the screws. I’ve been a PC user forever, but I’m loving my new macbook so far. My main reasons choosing the old Macbook Pro was the cheaper price, matte screen (didn’t think I’d get used to the glossy screen), DVI connector, and Firewire 400. Now that I’ve got my MacBook Pro setup, I can finally start using Adobe CS4. I’ll be looking into Adobe AIR, After Effects, Flex Builder and haXe (my friend Don got me into it). Actually, I have tons of stuff I want to look into after Adobe Max.

My first Adobe Max was awesome! I learned tons of stuff and had a great time. I’m glad it was only 3 days cause my brain was fried by the end of the third day. Luckily they’ll have all the sessions online later so I can watch the sessions that I missed. I found myself going to most of the flex sessions and the 360|flex unconference sessions. The sneak peaks of whats in the works in their labs was awesome! Just to name a few: Alchemy (Using C/C++ in Flash), Cocomo (Real Time Social Capabilities), RTMFP, Meer Meer (comparing sites in different browsers side by side and overlapping in DreamWeaver), Photoshop plugin (forgot what they called it, but it extracts an object from a layer by creating a selection around it and then it blends with the background seamlessly), Exporing images (somewhat like google street view and photosynth from microsoft except you can explore more seamlessly by zooming, panning, etc), and many others that I can’t remember at the moment. Can’t wait for the next Adobe Max.