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MacBreak Weekly 169: This Is What Happens Larry

by Jonathan Downin in Tech800 days ago

It’s a rather news-filled episode this week with the recent Crunchpad weirdness taking over the first part of the show. Michael Arrington released information on the now halted project that places the blame squarely on their partner in the project. After some initial skepticism, Leo and crew come around to believing Arrington’s claims. Alex is well versed on the topic of tablets as he also began the process of producing one before finding it next to impossible to make at an affordable price. Psystar has lost the initial round of litigation...

MacBreak Weekly 167: Skittles And Beer

by Jonathan Downin in Tech815 days ago

Things have been quiet on the Apple front over the past few weeks, and that trend continues here. Leo starts this one with an interview with Paul Kent of Macworld Expo. Leo will be among 3 big guest speakers next February including David Pogue and filmmaker Kevin Smith. Microsoft recently opened their first retail store an a video has hit the web showing a display of “spontaneous dancing” by the store employees. It appears that this is a play to make the store experience fun, but it ends up being completely awkward. After some time with...

MacBreak Weekly 163: Stroke The Mouse

by Jonathan Downin in Tech843 days ago

Apple released a slew of new products yesterday including a unibody iterations on the iMac and white MacBook, an up-speced Mac Mini and a new multi-touch enabled mouse, dubbed the Magic Mouse. This many big products aren’t usually launched without a keynote event, so these releases caught many off-guard. The new iMac now come in 21.5″ and 27″ models. While 27″ sounds huge, Apple has moved to a 9×16 aspect ratio for their displays, so they are not really that much bigger, just wider. The line also received processor and...

MacBreak Weekly 158: They Don’t Have That in the US

by Jonathan Downin in Tech878 days ago

Andy and Alex have both gotten their hands on the new camera-equipped iPod nano and the impressions are fairly positive.  While the image quality takes a serious hit when moving quickly, walking and in low-light situations, the video looks great in optimal conditions.  Overall, it seems to be a great addition to the device. The camera-less iPod Touch receives a lot of attention with the group again reiterating that a camera equipped version will probably show up in the next few months.  The technical differences between the 8Gb and higher-end...

MacBreak Weekly 156: Snow Job

by Jonathan Downin in Tech892 days ago

Okay Mac fanboys, buckle-up because Leo is crashing this thing.  He is not too happy about the recently released Snow Leopard and he is not shy about letting everyone know that it doesn’t feel like a significant upgrade and it should have been rolled out as service packs.  In fact, not only was it not a meaningful update to him, it broke many things in his daily work-flow.  Alex and Andy are in defense mode though, so not everyone is unhappy about Apple’s latest OS release. After getting the Snow Leopard discussion out of the way...

MacBreak Weekly 155: When You’re Ready to Compromise, Call Me

by Jonathan Downin in Tech898 days ago

With Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard a mere 3 days away, it is a big topic this week.  While Leo doesn’t want to spend too much time on it since next week’s episode will probably be nothing but impressions, Andy does speculate on the motivation for Apple to reduce the disk space imprint of the new OS.  He surmises that it may have something to with Apple wanting to accommodate for SSDs, possibly for the forthcoming tablet.  Also, don’t miss the Snow Leopard application compatibility Wiki. Apple has released 2 new “Get a Mac”...

MacBreak Weekly 154: Graceful Degradation

by Jonathan Downin in Tech906 days ago

Merlin Mann is back after his 1 1/2 year absence as a regular on MacBreak Weekly, and it makes you realize how much of an asset he was to the show.  If you aren’t aware of some of his personal projects, you will be doing yourself a favor to check out his productivity blog 43folders.com and podcast You Look Nice Today. iPhone satisfaction is at an all-time high with a staggering 99% customer satisfaction rating.  This is in stark comparison to other smartphones and notably the Palm Pre which has an 87% rating.  These figures don’t...

MacBreak Weekly 152: It’s In Airplane Mode

by Jonathan Downin in Tech920 days ago

The Google Voice app story continues to be a big issue in the tech world.  The FCC is now involved and the latest development is the departure of long-time Apple board member, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt.  The speculation is that this is related to the FCC investigation, but Apple insists that this is just due to the converging markets of the two companies. The Apple tablet seems almost certain at this point.  Everyone agrees, it is coming before March, and many expect a September announcement with an October release.  The rumored $699 –...

MacBreak Weekly 151: Unresponsive When Sweaty

by Jonathan Downin in Tech927 days ago

The tablet rumors are going strong again and the latest is that it could release as soon as September.  The rumors are coming from a lot of sources, but the strongest is coming out of AppleInsider. There is a lot of speculation about many aspects of the tablet with Leo surmising that it may come out with Verizon wireless service as has been rumored.  The real meat of the discussion centers around the operating system of the machine.  All 3 of the guys come to mutual conclusion that it will probably be a built-up iPhone rather than a stripped-down...

MacBreak Weekly 146: Sneaky Andy

by Jonathan Downin in Tech962 days ago

There is a lot of really great stuff on this week’s episode.  Andy got an iPhone 3GS (no space between the G and S, it’s official now) an hour after the keynote.  Being the trustworthy guy he is he was able to keep it quiet, even when he was in studio with Leo last week no one had any idea.  This really puts him in an elite league and he talks about it here. There has been a serious amount of new concerning Steve Jobs over the past few days and the guys are talking about it.  Although it still hasn’t been confirmed, it sounds...

MacBreak Weekly 144: WWDC Wrap Up

by Jonathan Downin in Tech976 days ago

WWDC has come and gone, and as expected we got a new iPhone.  The new iPhone 3GS is a deceptive update in that it looks almost identical to the 3G, but the internals are all new including a faster processor, a new 3 megapixel camera, built-in digital compass and many other new features. There was a lot of news about Snow Leopard, the most significant of which is that when it releases in September it will retail for $29.  With all the refinements and new technologies being incorporated this is an absolute steal. The MacBook Pro line has seen updates...

MacBreak Weekly 142: Oops, I Bought It

by Jonathan Downin in Tech990 days ago

Scott has received some juicy information about a potential future iPhone from an informant from within Verizon.  There aren’t too many details, but obviously the information includes that it will be on Verizon and that it will be announced in June.  The guys do speculate that this could be a power play by Apple to get better terms with AT&T. iLounge has claims that Apple is planning an update to the iPod nano that would transition it to having a true widescreen display and a camera.  Apple adding a camera to all their devices could...

MacBreak Weekly 141: Wi-Fi Bubble Boy

by Jonathan Downin in Tech997 days ago

The big news of the week is that the Palm Pre will be launching on June 6th, 2 days ahead of Apple’s WWDC keynote.  Whether this is good timing or not is hard to tell, but it is certainly is a good thing that they are getting it out before the supposed announcement of the new iPhone hardware announcement. The iPhone 3 rumors are running rampant as WWDC is just 2 weeks away.  They range from it having an OLED screen and glowing apple logo and having an FM transmitter.  Some sound more plausible than others, but an OLED screen would be very...

MacBreak Weekly 140: The $30,000 Question

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1003 days ago

With WWDC just 3 weeks away at this point the rumor mill is really starting to spin up.  One of the bigger ones related to the iPhone is that it will feature a built-in digital compass.  This will improve the iPhone’s turn-by-turn navigation by a great margin.  There are also rumors of a better 3.2 Megapixel camera that will be capable of variable focus. A new Zune commercial has come out that is another in a line that is a direct attack at Apple.  They insinuate that it would take $30,000 to fill an iPod and a monthly Zune pass only costs...

MacBreak Weekly 139: Deploy The Ponytail

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1011 days ago

Quickly up-front Leo mentions the rumors that Apple is looking to aquire some other big companies.  He mentions Twitter, but EA has also been rumored to be in Apple’s sights.  Apple is very cash heavy and recessions are a great time for acquisitions, but Twitter just doesn’t make sense.  With Apple making some serious waves in the gaming scene with the iPhone and iPod Touch the idea of them acquiring EA is interesting. The first real topic to be covered this week is the rumor that Amazon will be introducing a new, larger screen Kindle...

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