Macworld Expo/San Francisco

Trade-show business may be slow throughout the industry, but Macworld Expo/San Francisco drew big crowds in its first days.

Bretford, an Illinois furniture maker, touted a desk that comes with a sidecar that fits the Power Mac G4.

A goldfish-hued iMac aquarium made a colorful prize at RedLightRunners booth.

An area of Moscone Centers North Hall was dedicated to touting Mac OS X-native gaming titles.

Rows of easels propped up Mac flat-panel displays at Corels booth, where visitors tried their hands at Version 11 of the companys graphics suite.

An Expo attendee checks out Keynote, Apples slick new presentation program.

Harman Multimedia displayed its futuristic Invader set of multimedia speakers and subwoofer.

Visitors to the Apple booth try their hands at the new 17-inch PowerBook.

Little wonder: Visitors were eager to get their hands on the new 12-inch PowerBook.

In an era when trade-show booths are getting smaller, Radeons was one of the few split-level models on the Moscone show floor.

Drive Savers data-recovery service showed off a salvaged PowerBook that had been run over by a shuttle bus (left) and one submerged beneath the waters of the Amazon (right).

Besides drawing gamers to its own booth, Nvidias GeForce4 graphics processors garnered a preferred position in Apples new laptops.

Look out, Xserve: Grande Vitesse Systems new GVS 9000 puts a Power Mac motherboard into a 1U chassis. It features redundant power supplies, dual 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 chips and a 167-Mhz bus.

Rain Design drew the attention of style-minded iMac owners with a pedestal that matches the flat-panel consumer system.