With
Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton (Chairman of the board of SlamDance
Industries), Robert Heron (PC Mag and famous lab rat), Kevin Rose,
David Prager (rectal web server installer), Roger Chang (GameSpot),
John C. Dvorack
Recorded on June 5th 05.
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ITEM #1 MACINTEL
Macintosh going to Intel chip (according to the Wall Street Journal)
Leo predicts the demise of Macintosh. Steve Job is falling on his sword
1) All software has to be rewritten
2) Why x86?
3) Osborn effect. Many Mac products will be obsolete
John C. Dvorack says this trend will last 10 years. Dvorack: It will be the one of the biggest benefits of Macintosh (offers other very interesting insight into the move)
Patrick – Bigger Market goes to bigger MHZ Numbers. Great if it makes a cheaper MAC but don’t believe its going to happen
Kevin – Excited about the move. Apple engineering is excellent. Now he can game on a Mac. Thumbs UP.
Heron – First stage of Mac creating competition for Windows. Thumbs down for hard ware
Roger
– With all the 3-d rendering and content creation tools Mac will be
able to retain their fan base by keeping the look and feel of the Mac
on an x86. Thumbs up for Software Thumbs down for hardware
Is this good for Microsoft?
ITEM #2 WiMAX
Patrick Norton talked with Intel– WiMax is still mostly hype
“WiMax is a microwave replacement for cable or DSL distribution of Broadband” at about 1Mb
Fix WiMax test will start this summer 2005, roll out will begin late 2006, and finally mobile Wireless
ITEM #3 ICANN has approved the XXX domain
The redlight district of the Internet
Really being done with .edu ..gov
Will make it easier to filter
Twit.XXX?
MOBI – cell phone content specific (format)
ITEM #4 Roger on New Games
A bit slow during the summer
Everyone waiting on the new 360 stuff
Next generation of consoles usually causes a dip
ITEM #5 More MacIntel
Roger waiting for Final Cut Pro and compositing /video shaping software
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