Apple has a young channel of update MacBooks , and we ’ve got the benchmark . We plunge into the numbers in this episode of the Macworld Podcast in a roundtable give-and-take featuring editorial director Jason Snell , Macworld.com executive editor Philip Michaels , Macworld science lab director James Galbraith , and senior news editor in chief Jonathan Seff .
In accession to this roundtable , which covers not only the new MacBooks but also the upcoming iPhone andApple ’s Worldwide Developers Conference , I also talk toDan WoodofKarelia Software . Long - time Mac substance abuser will commemorate Dan as the creator of the much - mourned Watson ; he ’s also the creator of the Web site creation tool Sandvox . I talk to Dan about Sandvox and how it feel to develop in a outer space that Apple might enter .
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Show Notes
Our stave - up of the hebdomad ’s news covers the class - action mechanism suit aver that Apple has misrepresented the amount of colors its laptops can display . Be sure to read Jason Snell ’s comment on the matter . I also verbalise about allofmp3.com and themusic industry ’s efforts to shut it down .
act on to the MacBook word , take a gander at Macworld Lab ’s benchmarks for the new laptops . Philip Michaels mentions the “ Santa Rosa ” acclivity of Intel ’s Centrino laptop chipset during the discussion ; here ’s his forthwith - examine - wrong prognostication about how that engineering might get contain into the Mac platform .
Our roundtable discussion also covers last week ’s proclamation that the iPhone gain ground FCC approval as well as an erroneous Web internet site composition about the iPhone that charge Apple ’s stock tumbling .
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