by Apple Representatives Matt Little and Rusty Clementoni

Attached should be 4 photos from last night's 'SeniorNet Computer Club' Presentation of the Windows-capable "Intel Macintosh".

First, we would like to says THANKS to all those persons who took the time to attend and support this Macintosh presentation -- and fill up the seating area.  ((Our biggest worry was that we would have a speaker take the time to come and do a presentation,  but only have only a small handful of attendees, such as we experienced back in 2004 when we tried to have Macintosh presenters come to Penn College.))

This photo shows -- standing on the right, with the tie and yellow shirt) -- Rusty Clementoni . . . the Apple salesperson who set up this presentation.  Standing on the left (in the dark blue shirt), is Apple engineer Matt Little, who did most of the presentation.

Matt discussed the 'Boot Camp' software, which allows the Mac to boot up-in and run Windows XP right at the hardware level just like it would if it was a real Windows box.  Matt also discussed the 'Parallels' program which allows the Mac to run a Windows-emulation program, so you can run your Windows programs simultaneously with Mac programs.  He also addressed many questions from the Mac users in attendance.

This photo again shows Matt Little, standing at right.   The gentleman sitting down immediately to Matt's left (in a dark blue shirt) is Dale Reeder, from Leading Electronics, whom we requested to attend.  Leading Electronics is our local authorized Apple dealer.  They sell and service both Macs and Windows computers.

The gentleman sitting in the very left edge of the photo (in a dark blue shirt) is Geoff Knauth, the chairman of the local Williamsport Mac Meetup group  ( mac.meetup.com/25 ), that meets here in Williamsport the 2nd Tuesday of every month.  Geoff and his group were obliging enough to relocate their meeting from their usual normal location at a local coffee house where they can lounge and sip on a beverage, to our crowded, non-beveraged library space, so they could help boost our attendance.

This photo again shows Matt Little, standing at right.   The gentleman sitting down immediately to Matt's left is Mike Dock  (in a dark blue shirt), from Northumberland.  The lady in the left edge of the picture is Bonna Cafiso from Sunbury.  We also had a gentleman from Danville, and 3 persons from the Lock Haven area.

This photo again shows Matt Little, the only photo where you get a semi-decent view of his face.

These people from these outlying towns probably learned about the program from the Central Pa Mac Users email discussion Listserver.   We also had quite a few Williamsport-area people who are not SeniorNet members.  I am speculating that they might have learned about this program from Sun-Gazette writer George Gedon's Sunday article headlined "SeniorNet to look at Windows vs. Mac".

The attendance sheet indicates that only about 7 SeniorNet members were in attendance: George and Janice Cohen, Art & Jane Kline, Fred Stiner, Rudy Wacek, and myself.  Thus this program was really not all that heavily attended by actual SeniorNet members.  But with the help of the  Mac Meetup group, Mac users from outlying towns, and the general community, we were able to provide a reasonably "respectable" audience.

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