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Being burned as many times as Apple has, the explanation Steve Jobs presented certainly makes sense to me. I love the design of the PowerPC, but damned if the suppliers haven't bitten Apple in the butt repeatedly.

PPC hasn't exactly been stagnation-free for Apple with the G3, the G4, and now the G5. Even worse, though, are the shortages Apple has run into with nearly every new system launch because suppliers -- often IBM or Motorola -- weren't able to churn components out fast enough.

Intel has the capacity to make smooth launches happen. And that, when you talk to users and Mac journalists, is only a good thing. Shawn King of Your Mac Life sounds like a broken record every time a new Mac comes out because Apple can never fill orders. As an investor and a fan of the platform, that's not good news. You've got to capture the market while it's fresh. Repeat customers dig the hype of a new product, but once the dust settles they may decide they can keep going along with their current Mac. And switchers... "Hey, we've got this cheap introductory Mac for you" only works when you have enough product for people to actually buy it.

Intel's got a hell of a thing going with the Pentium M. If the derived desktop processors work as well as they're claiming, this will be a huge move for Apple.

Try these...

http://yourmaclife.com/

http://macradio.com/

Both have regular (weekly) online radio broadcasts.

And something I found out about thru Bitpass: Fanboy Radio about the comic industry.

And if you've exhausted the NPR database, try checking out the databases of WAMU or Minnesota Public Radio.

And there's always [cough. plug. cough.] cheap-to-free audiobooks from Telltale Weekly.

Alex.

If you're a Macintosh user, you might want to check out "Your Mac Life". It is informative and provides news about Apple and other companies.

Your Mac Life link

Your Mac Life is a weekly, three-hour long radio program on all things Apple. I listen every once in a while, most often following big announcements. For example, the WWDC wrap-up show will probably be interesting. It's not rigorously technical, but the questioner might like it.

Hassan Aref, Dean of Engineers at Virginia Tech, answered a lot of questions about the setup of the computer during a 20 minute interview last month. Go to the Your Mac Life archives page and pull down the MP3 or AAC archive of the Sep 10 show. The interview itself is 1:15-1:35.

For those interested in a lot of FAQs about the project, I'd recommend a visit to Your Mac Life, the weekly net radio program about Macs. Their Sep 10 show has a half-hour interview with Hassan Aref, the Dean in charge of the school and the project. Much useful info.

For those interested in a lot of FAQs about the project, I'd recommend a visit to Your Mac Life, the weekly net radio program about Macs. Their Sep 10 show has a half-hour interview with Hassan Aref, the Dean in charge of the school and the project. Much useful info.

You've had me thinking on this one for a bit now. On the latest archive of Your Mac Life about 1:17:00 into it Steve Wozniak discusses his latest devices. Some of the interesting points he made were that the devices did use the 900mHz range had a throughput of 1000 baud and an average in city range of 1-2 miles although they said with clear distance they hit 117 miles.

Also an interesting tidbit is to work with the interference of other devices theirs scan for the existing background noise and then pull and read the signals that are different. Not that it doesn't mean they are using participating I didn't see Wheels of Zues on the list of members. My intuition says that there was a recognized need for low throughput wireless devices with the batter life for implementing in everyday devices.

I'm not as familiar with it but it is also worth looking towards Microsoft's watches that they demoed a couple of months ago. If memory serves correct they used FM frequencies and encoded into them but the part I remember was an interview on the screen savers with the guy who developed the encoding method who said they reached the theoretical bandwidth limit on encoding into the FM frequencies.

This was my first Macworld (and probably not my last), and I had fun, as did the Linux-geek-who-loves-OSX that I went with. I was kind of disappointed that Adobe didn't have a booth of their own (nor a beta of After Effects 6.0), but it was cool enough just to mess around with huge Photoshop files on a G5... my God those things are fast (and they're also really quiet!). Also, to see Expose in action was really something... it makes all those screenshots I've seen previously all that more believable.

Oh, and the presentation by Fischerspooner was fun... I think they may have a new fan here ^_^

Dvorak has time and time again shot massive holes through his credibility when it comes to the topic of Macintosh and Apple. I'm surprised he's not so thoroughly embarrassed by this point to avoid the subject completely. It's likely he only put this column up to kick up hits to his column which is precisely why I'm not going to it.

So, I guess the advice here is to consider the source--consider it, then ignore it.