What with all the uproar about the iPhone 3GS and just as much hub ( though a little less bub ) regarding Snow Leopard , it ’s easy to forget that Apple opened the WWDC keynote with public lecture of an update laptop computer line . If Apple ’s willing to devote that variety of keynote real demesne to the depicted object , the least we can do is spend a podcast talk about it .
And that ’s exactly what we do . Macworldeditorial music director Jason Snell and senior editor in chief Dan Frakes join me to utter laptops — Apple - post MacBooks as well as anything - but - Apple HackBooks .
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Show Notes
In the opening News & Commentary segment I mentioned Bruce Schroeder ’s 99 centLyrics+as the tool I used to catch some words on the go . It has n’t been able to pluck the language from every Song dynasty I ’ve thrown at it , but in this specific case it delivered nicely . It ’s worth a look if you demand this kind of thing .
When hash out the creation of his HackBook , Dan advert Boing Boing Gadgets’Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chartas a useful cock for deciding which netbook to part with .
If you ’d like to read about the experiences ofMacworldeditors position together HackBooks , here ’s Dan ’s Another Day , Another HackBook , Jason ’s Hands on With an Imaginary Apple Netbook , and Peter Cohen ’s Hands on with an Eee PC Netbook . And for some perceptiveness into how you did it old school with a desktop machine , there ’s Rob Griffiths ’ historic Frankenmac ! What ’s in a Mac Clone ?
We ’ve written extensively about the new MacBooks , let in reviews of the :
For more laptop entropy , visit our MacBook topic Sir Frederick Handley Page . And for all - things - roving , our Mobile Mac topic page will attend to you well .
