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Just a reminder that both Handspring and Palm (as well as the various third-party companies) will have large exhibit booths set up next week at the MacWorld Expo. If you're in the city and haven't yet registered, I believe you can get into the exhibit floor for $25 (unless you know someone already going, who has a coupon for free admission).

The expo is being held at the Moscone Convention Center in downtown San Francisco from Tuesday, January 9 through 12.

David Pogue, author of a Palm Pilot user's guide, is giving a couple of presentations there regarding the use of the Palm with the Mac. Exact schedule is available at his own home page at http://www.davidpogue.com/bio.html.

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Is this the first time they've attended a MW convention? They weren't at the one in NY this past summer, though there was a giant Handspring add hanging from the building across the street.

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Originally posted by lennonhead
Is this the first time they've attended a MW convention? They weren't at the one in NY this past summer, though there was a giant Handspring add hanging from the building across the street.

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Yup; I saw both Handspring and Palm booths at the San Francisco MacWorld Expo a year ago. At that time, I'd had my own blue Vdx for a few weeks, so I was pretty excited to learn what there was available.

It's where I first saw the Stowaway Keyboard. At the time, they only had a beta model there (since you may recall it was not available to purchase for many months after that), but I think the rep had to wipe it up after I had a chance to drool all over it!!

I don't know about this year, but last year both Handspring and Palm had a bunch of small stuff to give away, like a pen cap stylus and regular cheap styli. They WERE periodically giving away free PDAs but I didn't win any.

I'm hoping to spend a lot of time at those booths this year and just be generally nosey. As a woman sometimes I feel like I'm being ignored (what, do I really have to wear a crisp three-piece suit and dangle money on front of these guys to notice me?) but I'm learning how to deal with these computer conventions. I just ignore the exhibit bunnies (the "models" that are hired to wear skimpy clothing and hawk wares but who don't know Mac from McDonald's). Heh.

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Thread *bumped up* with new info

Hi folks! Just wanted to let you know that you can download a standalone guide to MacWorld Expo to download into your Visor at http://www.palmtoppublishing.com/macworldexpo/. According to it, Handspring is at booth #507 in the exhibit floor.

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