Business Computing Weekly # 342 11-December 2011

[FuckYouLetMeLogIn]

Dude, put a foam sock over your mic. It will eliminate all the popopopopopoping sounds.

POP!

[technologyadventures]

hey bill, can you try and fix those pops....the audio is terrible

[linuxcooldude]

While I think the flat, square look can't be trademarked. But in quite a few ways they have obviously copied their looks: The Square USB 110v charger, At one time box looked the same. In the App drawer it has the dots that indicate page your on. The dock on the bottom that has the 4 apps on it.

[linuxcooldude]

I think they were waiting on the Sandy Bridge Xeons to come out before bringing out new Mac Pro, think sometime of spring 2012.

[linuxcooldude]

Lowering of iPad2 price is possible, to compete with kindle fire. They also did it with prior versions of the iPhone. I might try to make a prediction with iPad 3, might have siri like the iPhone 4S.

[linuxcooldude]

DSLR cameras are usually superior video compared to conventional camcorders. But with video you might make some compromises. Substandard audio. Might be limited in length of video (12 minutes, file format issue? ) Form factor might be an issue, more shaky video for instance. Though most DSLR's had manual focus only, but seems the have autofocus too.

[linuxcooldude]

You have a lot of good topics on this show. I can't remember if I brought up the word conspiracy first during my show...lol I mean, it could always be possible for manufactures to hold back on HHD to push SSD's. But it does seem Thailand & Western Digital does have key components that other HDD manufactures need to manufacture their own. Talking in other forums some HDD companies don't make their own SSD drives and would not profit much if they did so.

[koioo2]

hi bruce