Ahh well 20 years later and how things have changed. Well some things anyway. At the Macworld 2004 expo Steve Jobs donned the old black polo-neck and jeans and wowed the religious mac faithful with a mix of design elegance (IPod Mini) very very cool software (GarageBand) and a suite of iLife '04 tools for 49 dollars. (or free with every new quack)
The iPod Mini was the darling of the show with a 4GB device going for about 250 dollars US. Garageband , an app like Acid, but with the ability to live record instruments, shipping with a thousand loops etc was awesome too. and the news that Apple is seriously going after the high end flash mp3 player market.
If I had the money I would get an iPod Mini now. Although they will only be available here in a couple of months.

Apple also lost no time exulting the beauty of quicktime streaming technology as singlehandedly enabling another webstreaming record but alas the quality was v.poor and I was not impressed at all - quicktime still walks in windowsmedia9's shadow.

Their press release below about this was the first thing out after the keynote followed by the usual gush about it being "the microsoft office for the rest of your life"
Gates must wish he was this cool (even though he is way cooler;-)

Apple Delivers Record-Breaking Webcast of Macworld Keynote