MokaFive recently attended MacWorld/MacIT. These are two separate shows/conferences held at the same time at Moscone Center West. MokaFive had both a kiosk at MacIT and a booth at MacWorld.
If I do say so myself, the M5 team did a phenomenal job pulling in the crowds and showing off our new Mac In Minutes for MokaFive Suite—a product that enables IT departments to set up a MokaFive Management Server and start deploying virtual Windows desktops to Macs in under an hour.
To celebrate the release, our marketing team created some beautiful packaging, sporting a silver embossed MokaFive logo on the front, and a branded USB key inside loaded with Mac In Minutes for MokaFive Suite. The visual impact was stunning, and the “oohs” and “ahhs” came both from the media and the attendees. The juxtaposition of this elegant box against the tiny little USB key seemed to communicate that our solution is light and easy to implement. Also, our demo of the MokaFive Mobile Player for iOS was very well received by the media.
Here are some pictures of the MokaFive team at the events.
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It’s not all about ease of use for simple tasks and vsierus. I have had laptops running every version of Windows since 3.1 and now run Windows 7 on a DELL desktop. I am a serious hobby photographer with 86,000 photos that are cataloged and edited in Lightroom 3, and occasionally edited further in Photoshop CS5. I currently have a recently purchased MacBook Pro (2011 Sandy Bridge) 13″ and a new Lenovo Thinkpad X220 12.5″ running Windows 7 and am deciding what to keep.1) The keyboard – the flat, slippery keys of the MBP cause me to make far too many mistakes and I am a good touch typists who writes a lot. The Thinkpad keyboards are much, much better for me. This is a very big issue for me, so make sure you are comfortable with the Mac keyboards, because you cannot change them.2) The Touchpad – The MBP’s is glorious, but I find the cursor jumps around too much when I accidentally brush it. I also am a long-time fan of the Thinkpad “Trackpoint” – the red eraser head – much easier movement of the cursor without taking your hands off the keyboard.3) Screen – the MBP’s is bright, high contrast….and very glossy. The screen on the X220 is a matte IP-S (sp?) screen that is equally bright and allegedly more color accurate.4) Lightroom – Adobe allows you to have a Windows version on your desktop and a Mac version on a MBP. However, if you want to run Photoshop on both, you have to buy a special “upgrade” for $XXX to do so.5) The MBP can run too hot for my lap under moderate use.6) Microsoft Outlook. There are versions for both Mac and PC. It is easy to import your data from the Windows version (.pst) to the Mac, and VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE to export your data back into a Windows format. Hard to believe but true. You can synchronize your e-mail if you have an imap account, but not contacts, calendar, etc.7) The build quality of the Thinkpad X220 and the MBP are very similar. The Thinkpad is almost one pound lighter and costs $300 less ($1,600 v. $1,300) – albeit the Thinkpad has a smaller screen and no optical drive. Viruses are a threat, but one that can be mitigated fairly easily and for less than $100 with any of the good Windows security suites.9) Moving from Windows, I have found OS X Snow Leopard very confusing, and my experience is that it takes me far longer to do things like switch between programs, move files, etc. There is no manual provided, so you have to but a book or tutorial.Since Lightroom and Photoshop are the same software on both platforms, and synching MS Outlook files is a major hassle, I am leaning strongly to selling the MBP and keeping the Thinkpad, particularly for travel, locally and internationally. MY impression is that the Mac is better for consuming media (webpages, video) and the Thinkpad is better for creating my end products (documents, Lightroom edited catalogs). I realize that is contrary to many people’s experience but it has been mine.