Negative – i respect that Adam has other needs that the average consumer, so that is OK, but there were lots of words and not much of a message embedded.

After listening to quite a number of your podcasts, I really feel you need to look for alternative guest for a number of future shows.

Signal to noise ratio – you did bring that point up in the show notes.

Well, enough of the critique , otherwise keep up the good work

Regards
Michael

Perhaps a little more time actually investigating the software, and a little less time being bigoted about it Adam ?

You came to a section about switchers and I was rather annoyed when windows users or switchers were reffered to as impatient! I can remember getting my first Mac Mini just over a year ago and I loved it, now I’m no slouch as a computer user but the right click thing that was mentioned should be one that IS POINTED OUT to switchers especially if they are buying a MAc from an Apple Store, it IS NOT OBVIOUS for the average switcher, equally sitting in front of a keyboard thinking where on earth is the # key can be really annoying
So please don’t refer to switchers or windows switchers as impatient, as the ad says they “just want it to work”.

Keep up the great podcasts.

I really enjoyed this episode of MacNotables. It was great to hear you, Adam, and Tonya discuss the wide variety of subjects, and to see the three of you reacting to each other was a real treat.

It might have been a lot of work, but for me, your hard work paid off.

Please consider doing more of these video podcasts.

1) The previous 2 revisions of MacBook Pro also used LED backlighting – it’s not a unique feature of the new model;
2) If the battery life of the new model appeared to match or better that of his old model, it *might* have been due to him comparing a brand new vs. used battery. Macworld’s review of the new model shows it has a slightly lower battery life compared with the previous generation;
3) The Nvidia 9600 is faster than the previous model’s 8600, but the more energy efficient 9400 definitely is not. It would be good to know exactly which MacBook Pro model Bob currently uses because it doesn’t sound like the previous model with the 8600, which should have been able to play games pretty well.

You talked about bridging an 802.11g and 802.11n network so that the 11n network isn’t slowed down. I wonder if you can advise me on my setup?

I use a Netgear DG824G wireless ADSL modem/router to provide 802.11b & g to a MacBook Pro, a Mac Mini and an Airport Express which is connected to an Apple iPodHiFi. I’d like to create two networks as you described so that my MacBook Pro can receive data at 802.11n speeds. If I buy the new Airport Extreme Base Station, can I simply plug it into one of the ethernet ports on the back of the Netgear modem/router in order to create two networks? Or is there another method that would work?

Keep up the good work!

Chris

Is apple updating the firmware on your extreme card, ir something in the mac itself? Might just buying a new extreme card work with the n netework.

You mentioned that people were out of luck who had pre-core duo 2 macs, I imagine some second party n card might work, if you have an express or pci/mcia side slot in your macbook pro or powerbook. I know I use a g card on an early powerbook.

thanks

oksure

You talked about bridging a new 802.11n Base Station with an older 802.11bg BS to create two wireless networks so that the 11n wouldn’t be slowed down by the presence of 11g devices. I’m wondering how I could do something similar.

My small wireless network at present consists of a NetGear DG824G ADSL Modem/Wireless Router which provides 802.11g to a MacBookPro, a Mac Mini and an Apple Airport Express connected to an iPodHiFi. Can I simply plug in an 802.11n Base Station into one of the ethernet ports of the DG824G to create a second network for the MacBookPro, and if so how do I create the bridge? Or is the solution more complex?

Any advice or recommendations gratefully received!

Chris